Kalkaska Memorial Health Center
CMS
Actual Harm
Immediate Jeopardy
Infection Control
Nutrition Care
Penalty
$10,364
Outcome
Kalkaska Memorial Health Center in Kalkaska, MI was fined $10,364 by CMS following 14 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
Kalkaska Memorial Health Center (Kalkaska, MI) — $10,364 in CMS Fines
Outcome: Kalkaska Memorial Health Center in Kalkaska, MI was fined $10,364 by CMS following 14 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.
- Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
- Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
- Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason.
- Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
- Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
- Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
- 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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