Date: June 23, 2006
Contact: Barbara Schoof Conant
barbara.conant@aging.ks.gov
Director of Communications
(785) 296-6154
The Kansas Department on Aging (KDOA) has been notified that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has imposed fines totaling $15,000 on Heritage Village of Eskridge, 505 N. Main St., Eskridge.
A fine of $7,000 resulted from violations which significantly and adversely affected the health, safety, nutrition or sanitation of the adult care residents of the facility. The violations were identified in a survey on April 13, 2006. Following a follow-up survey on May 1, an $8,000 fine was imposed.
KDOA conducts the facility surveys, but the federal agency imposes the penalties. The facility has 60 days to file an appeal.