LUTHERAN CARE CENTER
CMS
Actual Harm
Immediate Jeopardy
Infection Control
Medication Error
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$19,208
Outcome
LUTHERAN CARE CENTER in ALTAMONT, IL was fined $19,208 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 11 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
LUTHERAN CARE CENTER (ALTAMONT, IL) — $19,208 in CMS Fines
Outcome: LUTHERAN CARE CENTER in ALTAMONT, IL was fined $19,208 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 11 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.
- Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
- Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms.
- 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.
- 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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