Piedmont Health & Rehab Center
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Infection Control
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$8,512
Outcome
Piedmont Health & Rehab Center in Salisbury, NC was fined $8,512 by CMS following 14 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
Piedmont Health & Rehab Center (Salisbury, NC) — $8,512 in CMS Fines
Outcome: Piedmont Health & Rehab Center in Salisbury, NC was fined $8,512 by CMS following 14 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.
- 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.
- Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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