Federal Nursing-Home Survey Record
GREAT PLAINS POST ACUTE
Does GREAT PLAINS POST ACUTE have a federal violation or abuse history?
According to the public federal record on file with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), GREAT PLAINS POST ACUTE (CCN 175168), in WICHITA, KS, has federal inspection findings on its record. CMS also lists the facility as a candidate for its Special Focus Facility program; a candidate is not on the active watch list. In its current inspection cycle, CMS cited the facility for 22 deficiencies; the most serious carries scope/severity G on CMS's A–L scale, a level CMS classifies as actual harm. The most recent federal survey on file is dated 2025-02-11. Citations from earlier inspection cycles appear in the dated timeline below as historical findings, not current ones. CMS has $49,505 in civil money penalties on file against the facility. This page restates the federal record as published by CMS and draws no conclusion of its own. Strict time limits can apply to claims like these — consider consulting a qualified attorney promptly.
The Federal Record
At its most recent federal inspection, CMS cited this facility for 4 actual-harm deficiencies.
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.
A candidate for the federal Special Focus Facility watch list
CMS lists this facility as a candidate for the Special Focus Facility program. It is not on the active watch list.
Scope & Severity — current cycle
Civil money penalties on file
$49,505
CMS has $49,505 in civil money penalties on file against this facility. CMS also records 18 day(s) of payment denial.
Overall CMS star rating: this facility vs the CMS-published state average
This facility: 1 · CMS state average: 3.0
Deficiency timeline — full federal history
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Honor each resident's preferences, choices, values and beliefs.
Permit a resident to return to the nursing home after hospitalization or therapeutic leave that exceeds bed-hold policy.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.
Observe each nurse aide's job performance and give regular training.
Properly hold, secure, and manage each resident's personal money which is deposited with the nursing home.
Make sure that a working call system is available in each resident's bathroom and bathing area.
Give their staff education on dementia care, and what abuse, neglect, and exploitation are; and how to report abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
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 nurse aides have the skills they need to care for residents, and give nurse aides education in dementia care and abuse prevention.
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
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.
Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
Provide each resident with a nourishing, palatable, well-balanced diet that meets his or her daily nutritional and special dietary needs.
Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice.
Give residents notice of Medicaid/Medicare coverage and potential liability for services not covered.
Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
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.
Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
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 safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
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.
Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights.
Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
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.
Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.
Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.
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 or obtain laboratory tests/services when ordered and promptly tell the ordering practitioner of the results.
Keep complete, dated laboratory records in the resident's record.
Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
Give residents notice of Medicaid/Medicare coverage and potential liability for services not covered.
Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
Ensure residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason.
Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.
Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.
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 pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.
Give their staff education on dementia care, and what abuse, neglect, and exploitation are; and how to report abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
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.
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
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 pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public.
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