LAURELWOOD HEALTHCARE CENTER
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Inadequate Staffing
Infection Control
Medication Error
Nutrition Care
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$95,610
Outcome
LAURELWOOD HEALTHCARE CENTER in ELKTON, MD was fined $95,610 by CMS following 86 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
LAURELWOOD HEALTHCARE CENTER (ELKTON, MD) — $95,610 in CMS Fines
Outcome: LAURELWOOD HEALTHCARE CENTER in ELKTON, MD was fined $95,610 by CMS following 86 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.
- Provide activities to meet all resident's needs.
- Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
- Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive.
- Give residents notice of Medicaid/Medicare coverage and potential liability for services not covered.
- Keep residents' personal and medical records private and confidential.
- Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
- Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights.
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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