Brandon Woods of Dartmouth
Outcome
Brandon Woods of Dartmouth in SOUTH DARTMOUTH, MA was fined $36,586 by CMS across 3 separate penalties following 38 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
Brandon Woods of Dartmouth (SOUTH DARTMOUTH, MA) — $36,586 in CMS Fines
Outcome: Brandon Woods of Dartmouth in SOUTH DARTMOUTH, MA was fined $36,586 by CMS across 3 separate penalties following 38 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
- Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
- Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
- Encode each resident’s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment.
- Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
- Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
- Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
- Implement a program that monitors antibiotic use.
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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