VIEWCREST HEALTH CENTER
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Immediate Jeopardy
Inadequate Staffing
Infection Control
Medication Error
Nutrition Care
Wound Care
Penalty
$60,781
Outcome
VIEWCREST HEALTH CENTER in DULUTH, MN was fined $60,781 by CMS across 4 separate penalties following 24 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
VIEWCREST HEALTH CENTER (DULUTH, MN) — $60,781 in CMS Fines
Outcome: VIEWCREST HEALTH CENTER in DULUTH, MN was fined $60,781 by CMS across 4 separate penalties following 24 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
- Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
- Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
- Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate.
- PASARR screening for Mental disorders or Intellectual Disabilities
- Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
- 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.
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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