New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 8 - SOCIAL SERVICES
Chapter 370 - OVERSIGHT OF LICENSED HEALTHCARE FACILITIES AND COMMUNITY BASED WAIVER PROGRAMS
Part 4 - HEALTH FACILITY SANCTIONS AND CIVIL MONETARY PENALTIES
Section 8.370.4.12 - CORRECTION OF DEFICIENCIES
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
When the licensing authority has determined deficiencies exist, the facility must correct the deficiencies according to the following time frames:
A. Immediate response: The risk of injury or harm created or presented by the Class A and B deficiencies must be immediately eliminated. Under no circumstance should a situation that presents a risk of injury or harm to residents be allowed to continue. The facility must immediately stop the risk of injury or harm, even if the Class A or B deficiency is not corrected, by eliminating such risk of injury or harm. The facility, in addition to any other sanction imposed by the licensing authority, shall submit a plan of correction addressing systemic causes of the deficiencies within a determinate period of time approved by the licensing authority.
B. Plan of correction: All deficiencies must be corrected within a fixed period of time approved by the licensing authority.
C. Failure to timely correct: A separate civil monetary penalty may be imposed for each uncorrected Class A, Class B or Class C deficiency for each day that the particular violation continues beyond the date specified for correction.
