SOUTH HERITAGE HEALTH & REHABILITATION CENTER
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Infection Control
Medication Error
Resident Neglect
Wound Care
Penalty
$90,405
Outcome
SOUTH HERITAGE HEALTH & REHABILITATION CENTER in SAINT PETERSBURG, FL was fined $90,405 by CMS following 28 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
SOUTH HERITAGE HEALTH & REHABILITATION CENTER (SAINT PETERSBURG, FL) — $90,405 in CMS Fines
Outcome: SOUTH HERITAGE HEALTH & REHABILITATION CENTER in SAINT PETERSBURG, FL was fined $90,405 by CMS following 28 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- 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 medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
- Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
- Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
- Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
- Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being.
- Have a registered nurse on duty 8 hours a day; and select a registered nurse to be the director of nurses on a full time basis.
- 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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