AVANTARA HURON
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Infection Control
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$8,338
Outcome
AVANTARA HURON in HURON, SD was fined $8,338 by CMS following 10 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
AVANTARA HURON (HURON, SD) — $8,338 in CMS Fines
Outcome: AVANTARA HURON in HURON, SD was fined $8,338 by CMS following 10 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- 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.
- Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted
- Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
- Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.
- Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
- Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
- Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
- Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
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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