The Palm at Regency Square
CMS
Immediate Jeopardy
Infection Control
Medication Error
Resident Neglect
Wound Care
Penalty
$33,784
Outcome
The Palm at Regency Square in South Sioux City, NE was fined $33,784 by CMS following 33 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
The Palm at Regency Square (South Sioux City, NE) — $33,784 in CMS Fines
Outcome: The Palm at Regency Square in South Sioux City, NE was fined $33,784 by CMS following 33 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
- Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
- Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift.
- Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.
- Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.
- Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
- Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
- Make sure that a working call system is available in each resident's bathroom and bathing area.
How Crucible Prevents This
Crucible's continuous compliance monitoring would have flagged the regulatory gaps that led to these CMS fines — through automated survey-readiness checks, real-time deficiency tracking, staff compliance dashboards, and corrective action plan enforcement — preventing the violations before the next federal survey.
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