THE VALLEY HEALTH AND REHAB
CMS
Actual Harm
Infection Control
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$33,262
Outcome
THE VALLEY HEALTH AND REHAB in HAMILTON, MT was fined $33,262 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 21 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
THE VALLEY HEALTH AND REHAB (HAMILTON, MT) — $33,262 in CMS Fines
Outcome: THE VALLEY HEALTH AND REHAB in HAMILTON, MT was fined $33,262 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 21 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Ensure meals and snacks are served at times in accordance with resident’s needs, preferences, and requests. Suitable and nourishing alternative meals and snacks must be provided for residents who want to eat at non-traditional times or outside of scheduled meal times.
- Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
- Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
- Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.
- Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
- Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift.
- Provide the appropriate treatment and services to a resident who displays or is diagnosed with dementia.
- Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
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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