FARGO HEALTH CARE CENTER
CMS
Actual Harm
Inadequate Staffing
Infection Control
Medication Error
Nutrition Care
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$133,353
Outcome
FARGO HEALTH CARE CENTER in CHICAGO, IL was fined $133,353 by CMS across 3 separate penalties following 42 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
FARGO HEALTH CARE CENTER (CHICAGO, IL) — $133,353 in CMS Fines
Outcome: FARGO HEALTH CARE CENTER in CHICAGO, IL was fined $133,353 by CMS across 3 separate penalties following 42 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.
- Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
- Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
- Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
- Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason.
- Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.
- Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
- Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
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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