Woodridge Nursing Home
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Infection Control
Medication Error
Resident Neglect
Wound Care
Penalty
$33,005
Outcome
Woodridge Nursing Home in Barre, VT was fined $33,005 by CMS following 33 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
Woodridge Nursing Home (Barre, VT) — $33,005 in CMS Fines
Outcome: Woodridge Nursing Home in Barre, VT was fined $33,005 by CMS following 33 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
- Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft.
- Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
- Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
- Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
- Allow residents to easily view the nursing home's survey results and communicate with advocate agencies.
- 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.
- 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.
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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