Southridge Specialty Care
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Immediate Jeopardy
Infection Control
Medication Error
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$45,406
Outcome
Southridge Specialty Care in Marshalltown, IA was fined $45,406 by CMS following 25 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
Southridge Specialty Care (Marshalltown, IA) — $45,406 in CMS Fines
Outcome: Southridge Specialty Care in Marshalltown, IA was fined $45,406 by CMS following 25 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed.
- 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.
- Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
- Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
- Ensure each resident receives and the facility provides food prepared in a form designed to meet individual needs.
- Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.
- Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift.
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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