WHITTIER NURSING AND WELLNESS CENTER, INC
CMS
Documentation Failure
Immediate Jeopardy
Inadequate Staffing
Infection Control
Medication Error
Wound Care
Penalty
$13,627
Outcome
WHITTIER NURSING AND WELLNESS CENTER, INC in WHITTIER, CA was fined $13,627 by CMS following 29 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
WHITTIER NURSING AND WELLNESS CENTER, INC (WHITTIER, CA) — $13,627 in CMS Fines
Outcome: WHITTIER NURSING AND WELLNESS CENTER, INC in WHITTIER, CA was fined $13,627 by CMS following 29 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
- Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive.
- Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.
- Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
- 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.
- Post nurse staffing information every day.
- Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
- Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms.
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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