SPRING HILLS POST ACUTE HAMILTON

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.

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.

Ensure the facility is licensed under applicable State and local law and operates and provides services in compliance with all applicable Federal, State, and local laws, regulations, and codes, and with accepted professional standards.

Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.

Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.

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

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

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.

Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.

Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft.

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

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

Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

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.

Observe each nurse aide's job performance and give regular training.

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

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

Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.

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 a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

Ensure the facility is licensed under applicable State and local law and operates and provides services in compliance with all applicable Federal, State, and local laws, regulations, and codes, and with accepted professional standards.

Post nurse staffing information every day.

Keep all essential equipment working safely.

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.