COTTON POINT LIVING CENTER
CMS
Documentation Failure
Immediate Jeopardy
Medication Error
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$14,069
Outcome
COTTON POINT LIVING CENTER in MATTHEWS, MO was fined $14,069 by CMS following 32 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
COTTON POINT LIVING CENTER (MATTHEWS, MO) — $14,069 in CMS Fines
Outcome: COTTON POINT LIVING CENTER in MATTHEWS, MO was fined $14,069 by CMS following 32 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
- Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft.
- Assure that each resident’s assessment is updated at least once every 3 months.
- Encode each resident’s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment.
- Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted
- Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
- Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
- Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
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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