Life Care Center of Morehead
CMS
Documentation Failure
Immediate Jeopardy
Infection Control
Medication Error
Penalty
$15,334
Outcome
Life Care Center of Morehead in Morehead, KY was fined $15,334 by CMS following 15 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
Life Care Center of Morehead (Morehead, KY) — $15,334 in CMS Fines
Outcome: Life Care Center of Morehead in Morehead, KY was fined $15,334 by CMS following 15 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
- Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube.
- Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
- Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
- Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
- Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.
- Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
- Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
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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