PRUITTHEALTH - SAVANNAH
CMS
Documentation Failure
Inadequate Staffing
Infection Control
Medication Error
Resident Neglect
Wound Care
Penalty
$4,963
Outcome
PRUITTHEALTH - SAVANNAH in SAVANNAH, GA was fined $4,963 by CMS following 30 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
PRUITTHEALTH - SAVANNAH (SAVANNAH, GA) — $4,963 in CMS Fines
Outcome: PRUITTHEALTH - SAVANNAH in SAVANNAH, GA was fined $4,963 by CMS following 30 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Encode each resident’s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment.
- Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
- Provide the required documentation or notification related to the resident's needs, appeal rights, or bed-hold policies.
- Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
- Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate.
- 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.
- Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
- Give residents notice of Medicaid/Medicare coverage and potential liability for services not covered.
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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