Rocky Mount Rehabilitation Center in Rocky Mount, NC was fined $27,872 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 25 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.

Rocky Mount Rehabilitation Center (Rocky Mount, NC) — $27,872 in CMS Fines

Outcome: Rocky Mount Rehabilitation Center in Rocky Mount, NC was fined $27,872 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 25 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.

Deficiency areas cited:

• Provide the required documentation or notification related to the resident's needs, appeal rights, or bed-hold policies.


• Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.


• Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.


• Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube.


• Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being.


• Post nurse staffing information every day.


• Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.


• Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.