Autumn Care of Saluda
CMS
Documentation Failure
Immediate Jeopardy
Medication Error
Nutrition Care
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$16,801
Outcome
Autumn Care of Saluda in Saluda, NC was fined $16,801 by CMS following 21 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
Autumn Care of Saluda (Saluda, NC) — $16,801 in CMS Fines
Outcome: Autumn Care of Saluda in Saluda, NC was fined $16,801 by CMS following 21 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.
- Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
- Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money.
- Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
- Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
- Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
- Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being.
- Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate.
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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