KUAKINI GERIATRIC CARE, INC
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Immediate Jeopardy
Infection Control
Medication Error
Resident Neglect
Wound Care
Penalty
$83,236
Outcome
KUAKINI GERIATRIC CARE, INC in HONOLULU, HI was fined $83,236 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 55 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
KUAKINI GERIATRIC CARE, INC (HONOLULU, HI) — $83,236 in CMS Fines
Outcome: KUAKINI GERIATRIC CARE, INC in HONOLULU, HI was fined $83,236 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 55 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
- Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
- Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
- 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 safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
- Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
- Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
- Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
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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