Briar Creek Health Center
CMS
Actual Harm
Inadequate Staffing
Infection Control
Penalty
$8,606
Outcome
Briar Creek Health Center in Charlotte, NC was fined $8,606 by CMS following 8 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
Briar Creek Health Center (Charlotte, NC) — $8,606 in CMS Fines
Outcome: Briar Creek Health Center in Charlotte, NC was fined $8,606 by CMS following 8 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted
- Electronically submit to CMS complete and accurate direct care staffing information, based on payroll and other verifiable and auditable data.
- Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
- Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal 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.
- Provide safe, appropriate pain management 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 pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
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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