HEARTHSTONE

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

Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.

Ensure that staff members are educated on resident rights and facility responsibilities to properly care for its residents.

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

Ensure each resident must receive and the facility must provide necessary behavioral health care and services.

Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.

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

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

Provide training in compliance and ethics.

Have a plan that describes the process for conducting QAPI and QAA activities.

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

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.

Administer the facility in a manner that enables it to use its resources effectively and efficiently.

Post nurse staffing information every day.

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 and implement an infection prevention and control program.

Administer the facility in a manner that enables it to use its resources effectively and efficiently.

Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.

Dispose of garbage and refuse properly.

Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice.

Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.

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

Keep residents' personal and medical records private and confidential.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Ensure each resident receives and the facility provides food that accommodates resident allergies, intolerances, and preferences, as well as appealing options.

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

Develop and implement policies and procedures for flu and pneumonia vaccinations.

Develop, implement, and/or maintain an effective training program for all new and existing staff members.

Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.

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

Honor each resident's preferences, choices, values and beliefs.

Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.

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

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

Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money.

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

Ensure that the resident and his/her doctor meet face-to-face at all required visits.

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