WAYSIDE FARM INC
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Immediate Jeopardy
Medication Error
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$165,448
Outcome
WAYSIDE FARM INC in PENINSULA, OH was fined $165,448 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 19 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
WAYSIDE FARM INC (PENINSULA, OH) — $165,448 in CMS Fines
Outcome: WAYSIDE FARM INC in PENINSULA, OH was fined $165,448 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 19 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
- Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
- Honor the resident's right to manage his or her financial affairs.
- Notify each resident of certain balances and convey resident funds upon discharge, eviction, or death.
- Ensure residents have reasonable access to and privacy in their use of communication methods.
- Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
- Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights.
- Notify the resident or the resident’s representative in writing how long the nursing home will hold the resident’s bed in cases of transfer to a hospital or therapeutic leave.
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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