INTERCOMMUNITY HEALTHCARE & REHABILITATION CENTER
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Inadequate Staffing
Infection Control
Medication Error
Nutrition Care
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$20,654
Outcome
INTERCOMMUNITY HEALTHCARE & REHABILITATION CENTER in NORWALK, CA was fined $20,654 by CMS following 44 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
INTERCOMMUNITY HEALTHCARE & REHABILITATION CENTER (NORWALK, CA) — $20,654 in CMS Fines
Outcome: INTERCOMMUNITY HEALTHCARE & REHABILITATION CENTER in NORWALK, CA was fined $20,654 by CMS following 44 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
- Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
- Encode each resident’s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment.
- Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
- Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
- Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
- Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube.
- 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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