POLSON HEALTH & REHABILITATION CENTER
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Inadequate Staffing
Medication Error
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$17,404
Outcome
POLSON HEALTH & REHABILITATION CENTER in POLSON, MT was fined $17,404 by CMS following 15 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
POLSON HEALTH & REHABILITATION CENTER (POLSON, MT) — $17,404 in CMS Fines
Outcome: POLSON HEALTH & REHABILITATION CENTER in POLSON, MT was fined $17,404 by CMS following 15 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money.
- Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
- Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
- Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
- 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.
- Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
- Honor each resident's preferences, choices, values and beliefs.
- Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
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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