BALLARD NURSING CENTER
CMS
Documentation Failure
Immediate Jeopardy
Infection Control
Medication Error
Penalty
$12,740
Outcome
BALLARD NURSING CENTER in ADA, OK was fined $12,740 by CMS following 18 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
BALLARD NURSING CENTER (ADA, OK) — $12,740 in CMS Fines
Outcome: BALLARD NURSING CENTER in ADA, OK was fined $12,740 by CMS following 18 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.
- Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
- Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
- Educate residents and staff on COVID-19 vaccination, offer the COVID-19 vaccine to eligible residents and staff after education, and properly document each resident and staff member's vaccination status.
- Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate.
- Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.
- 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.
- Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
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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