Wisteria Place
CMS
Documentation Failure
Immediate Jeopardy
Infection Control
Medication Error
Nutrition Care
Penalty
$21,645
Outcome
Wisteria Place in Abilene, TX was fined $21,645 by CMS following 17 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
Wisteria Place (Abilene, TX) — $21,645 in CMS Fines
Outcome: Wisteria Place in Abilene, TX was fined $21,645 by CMS following 17 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
- Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
- Prevent the use of unnecessary psychotropic medications or use medications that may restrain a resident's ability to function.
- Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
- Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
- Hire a qualified full-time social worker in a facility with more than 120 beds.
- Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
- Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies and develop corrective plans of action.
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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