Valley Healthcare Center
CMS
Documentation Failure
Immediate Jeopardy
Infection Control
Medication Error
Nutrition Care
Wound Care
Penalty
$37,151
Outcome
Valley Healthcare Center in San Bernardino, CA was fined $37,151 by CMS following 44 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
Valley Healthcare Center (San Bernardino, CA) — $37,151 in CMS Fines
Outcome: Valley Healthcare Center in San Bernardino, CA was fined $37,151 by CMS following 44 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
- 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.
- Notify the resident or the resident’s representative in writing how long the nursing home will hold the resident’s bed in cases of transfer to a hospital or therapeutic leave.
- Assess the resident completely in a timely manner when first admitted, and then periodically, at least every 12 months.
- 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.
- Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
- Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
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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