ALLURE OF KNOX COUNTY
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Immediate Jeopardy
Infection Control
Medication Error
Resident Neglect
Wound Care
Penalty
$116,526
Outcome
ALLURE OF KNOX COUNTY in GALESBURG, IL was fined $116,526 by CMS across 3 separate penalties following 40 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
ALLURE OF KNOX COUNTY (GALESBURG, IL) — $116,526 in CMS Fines
Outcome: ALLURE OF KNOX COUNTY in GALESBURG, IL was fined $116,526 by CMS across 3 separate penalties following 40 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
- Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.
- Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
- Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
- Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
- Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her 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.
- Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
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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