BRIARWOOD REHABILITATION & HEALTHCARE CENTER
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Infection Control
Medication Error
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$8,788
Outcome
BRIARWOOD REHABILITATION & HEALTHCARE CENTER in NEEDHAM, MA was fined $8,788 by CMS following 23 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
BRIARWOOD REHABILITATION & HEALTHCARE CENTER (NEEDHAM, MA) — $8,788 in CMS Fines
Outcome: BRIARWOOD REHABILITATION & HEALTHCARE CENTER in NEEDHAM, MA was fined $8,788 by CMS following 23 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
- 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 safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
- Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
- Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
- Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
- Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
- Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
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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