ROYAL NURSING CENTER, LLC
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Infection Control
Medication Error
Wound Care
Penalty
$8,278
Outcome
ROYAL NURSING CENTER, LLC in FALMOUTH, MA was fined $8,278 by CMS following 30 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
ROYAL NURSING CENTER, LLC (FALMOUTH, MA) — $8,278 in CMS Fines
Outcome: ROYAL NURSING CENTER, LLC in FALMOUTH, MA was fined $8,278 by CMS following 30 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted
- Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.
- Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
- Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
- 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.
- Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
- Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
- Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights.
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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