INDEPENDENCE CARE CENTER FOR NURSING AND REHABILIT
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Infection Control
Medication Error
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$66,859
Outcome
INDEPENDENCE CARE CENTER FOR NURSING AND REHABILIT in RIVERDALE, NY was fined $66,859 by CMS following 33 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
INDEPENDENCE CARE CENTER FOR NURSING AND REHABILIT (RIVERDALE, NY) — $66,859 in CMS Fines
Outcome: INDEPENDENCE CARE CENTER FOR NURSING AND REHABILIT in RIVERDALE, NY was fined $66,859 by CMS following 33 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
- Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
- Keep residents' personal and medical records private and confidential.
- Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted
- Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
- Provide activities to meet all resident's needs.
- Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.
- Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
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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