SHAFTER NURSING CARE
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Infection Control
Medication Error
Nutrition Care
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$27,439
Outcome
SHAFTER NURSING CARE in SHAFTER, CA was fined $27,439 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 52 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
SHAFTER NURSING CARE (SHAFTER, CA) — $27,439 in CMS Fines
Outcome: SHAFTER NURSING CARE in SHAFTER, CA was fined $27,439 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 52 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
- Assure that each resident’s assessment is updated at least once every 3 months.
- Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed.
- Have a registered nurse on duty 8 hours a day; and select a registered nurse to be the director of nurses on a full time basis.
- Observe each nurse aide's job performance and give regular training.
- Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
- Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
- Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money.
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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