Federal Nursing-Home Survey Record
Pawtucket Falls Healthcare Center
Does Pawtucket Falls Healthcare Center have a federal violation or abuse history?
According to the public federal record on file with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Pawtucket Falls Healthcare Center (CCN 415064), in Pawtucket, RI, has federal inspection findings on its record. In its current inspection cycle, CMS cited the facility for 5 deficiencies; the most serious carries scope/severity E. Citations from earlier inspection cycles appear in the dated timeline below as historical findings, not current ones. CMS has $241,130 in civil money penalties on file against the facility. This page restates the federal record and draws no conclusion of its own. Strict time limits can apply to claims like these — consider consulting a qualified attorney promptly. Federal nursing-home surveys are conducted on a recurring cycle by state survey agencies acting on CMS's behalf, and the figures on this page are compiled from CMS's published provider data, as on file with federal regulators; the federal record may understate what actually occurred, and inspection findings are point-in-time survey results, not a determination that any specific resident was harmed.
The Federal Record
CMS has $241,130 in civil money penalties on file against this facility.
Below is this facility's federal survey record as on file with federal regulators (CMS). Strict time limits can apply to claims like these — consider consulting a qualified attorney promptly.
Scope & Severity — current cycle
Civil money penalties on file
$241,130
CMS has $241,130 in civil money penalties on file against this facility.
Overall CMS star rating: this facility vs the CMS-published state average
This facility: 2 · CMS state average: 3.0
Deficiency timeline — full federal history
Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
Provide medically-related social services to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life.
Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason.
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
Administer the facility in a manner that enables it to use its resources effectively and efficiently.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
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.
Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
Develop, implement, and/or maintain an effective training program for all new and existing staff members.
Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted
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.
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.
Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.
Provide care or services that was trauma informed and/or culturally competent.
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.
Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.
Allow residents to easily view the nursing home's survey results and communicate with advocate agencies.
Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Administer the facility in a manner that enables it to use its resources effectively and efficiently.
Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
Encode each resident’s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment.
Assess the resident completely in a timely manner when first admitted, and then periodically, at least every 12 months.
Assure that each resident’s assessment is updated at least once every 3 months.
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies and develop corrective plans of action.
Perform COVID19 testing on residents and staff.
Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.
Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
Provide or obtain laboratory tests/services when ordered and promptly tell the ordering practitioner of the results.
Notify each resident of certain balances and convey resident funds upon discharge, eviction, or death.
Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited.
Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
Not transfer or discharge a resident without an adequate reason; and must provide documentation and convey specific information when a resident is transferred or discharged.
Obtain a doctor's order to admit a resident and ensure the resident is under a doctor's care.
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Provide appropriate foot care.
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