Greendale Park Nursing and Rehab

Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube.

Encode each resident’s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment.

Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.

Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.

Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.

Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.

Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.

Provide the required documentation or notification related to the resident's needs, appeal rights, or bed-hold policies.

Ensure the transfer/discharge meets the resident's needs/preferences and that the resident is prepared for a safe transfer/discharge.

Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate.

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 appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.

Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.

Try different approaches before using a bed rail. If a bed rail is needed, the facility must (1) assess a resident for safety risk; (2) review these risks and benefits with the resident/representative; (3) get informed consent; and (4) Correctly install and maintain the bed rail.

Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.

Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.

Ensure nurse aides have the skills they need to care for residents, and give nurse aides education in dementia care and abuse prevention.

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

Conduct and document a facility-wide assessment to determine what resources are necessary to care for residents competently during both day-to-day operations (including nights and weekends) and emergencies.

Have a registered nurse on duty 8 hours a day; and select a registered nurse to be the director of nurses on a full time basis.

Try different approaches before using a bed rail. If a bed rail is needed, the facility must (1) assess a resident for safety risk; (2) review these risks and benefits with the resident/representative; (3) get informed consent; and (4) Correctly install and maintain the bed rail.

Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.

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.

Establish a governing body that is legally responsible for establishing and implementing policies for managing and operating the facility and appoints a properly licensed administrator responsible for managing the facility.

Conduct mandatory training, for all staff, on the facility’s Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement Program.

Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.

Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.

Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.

Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.

Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.

Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.

Ensure residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason.

Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.

Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.

Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.

Honor the resident's right to voice grievances without discrimination or reprisal and the facility must establish a grievance policy and make prompt efforts to resolve grievances.

Ensure residents have reasonable access to and privacy in their use of communication methods.

Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate.

Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.

Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.

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 appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.

Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.

Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.

Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

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 pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.

Provide medically-related social services to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life.

Try different approaches before using a bed rail. If a bed rail is needed, the facility must (1) assess a resident for safety risk; (2) review these risks and benefits with the resident/representative; (3) get informed consent; and (4) Correctly install and maintain the bed rail.

Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.

Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.

Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.

Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.

Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.

Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.

Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.

Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.

Plan the resident's discharge to meet the resident's goals and needs.

Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.

Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted

Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed.

Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights.

Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.

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.

Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.

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 pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.

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.

Provide for the safe, appropriate administration of IV fluids for a resident when needed.

Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.

Encode each resident’s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment.

Give residents notice of Medicaid/Medicare coverage and potential liability for services not covered.