COMPLETE CARE AT MERIDEN
CMS
Documentation Failure
Immediate Jeopardy
Inadequate Staffing
Medication Error
Resident Neglect
Wound Care
Penalty
$8,827
Outcome
COMPLETE CARE AT MERIDEN in MERIDEN, CT was fined $8,827 by CMS following 40 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
COMPLETE CARE AT MERIDEN (MERIDEN, CT) — $8,827 in CMS Fines
Outcome: COMPLETE CARE AT MERIDEN in MERIDEN, CT was fined $8,827 by CMS following 40 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
- Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
- Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
- Plan the resident's discharge to meet the resident's goals and needs.
- 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.
- Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
- Try different approaches before using a bed rail. If a bed rail is needed, the facility must (1) assess a resident for safety risk; (2) review these risks and benefits with the resident/representative; (3) get informed consent; and (4) Correctly install and maintain the bed rail.
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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