Liberty Health Care Center
CMS
Documentation Failure
Immediate Jeopardy
Medication Error
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$392,920
Outcome
Liberty Health Care Center in Liberty, TX was fined $392,920 by CMS following 17 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
Liberty Health Care Center (Liberty, TX) — $392,920 in CMS Fines
Outcome: Liberty Health Care Center in Liberty, TX was fined $392,920 by CMS following 17 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money.
- Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
- 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.
- Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
- Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.
- Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
- Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
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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