MESA HILLS POST ACUTE
CMS
Documentation Failure
Immediate Jeopardy
Infection Control
Medication Error
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$5,734
Outcome
MESA HILLS POST ACUTE in BROWNSVILLE, TX was fined $5,734 by CMS following 28 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
MESA HILLS POST ACUTE (BROWNSVILLE, TX) — $5,734 in CMS Fines
Outcome: MESA HILLS POST ACUTE in BROWNSVILLE, TX was fined $5,734 by CMS following 28 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed.
- Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
- Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
- 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.
- Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
- Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
- 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.
- Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
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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