AURORA BRULE NURSING HOME INC
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Inadequate Staffing
Infection Control
Medication Error
Penalty
$17,928
Outcome
AURORA BRULE NURSING HOME INC in WHITE LAKE, SD was fined $17,928 by CMS following 16 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
AURORA BRULE NURSING HOME INC (WHITE LAKE, SD) — $17,928 in CMS Fines
Outcome: AURORA BRULE NURSING HOME INC in WHITE LAKE, SD was fined $17,928 by CMS following 16 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Provide the required documentation or notification related to the resident's needs, appeal rights, or bed-hold policies.
- Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
- Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
- Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
- Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
- Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
- Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
- Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
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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