San Antonio North Nursing and Rehabilitation

Provide or obtain dental services for each resident.

Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.

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

Keep residents' personal and medical records private and confidential.

Prepare residents for a safe transfer or discharge from the nursing home.

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

Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public.

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

Have a policy regarding use and storage of foods brought to residents by family and other visitors.

Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.

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

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.

Dispose of garbage and refuse properly.

Provide appropriate foot care.

Provide the appropriate treatment and services to a resident who displays or is diagnosed with mental disorder or psychosocial adjustment difficulty, or who has a history of trauma and/or post-traumatic stress disorder.

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

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.

Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.

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

Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

Prepare residents for a safe transfer or discharge from the nursing home.

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.

Ensure necessary information is communicated to the resident, and receiving health care provider at the time of a planned discharge.

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.

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.

Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.

Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public.

Provide basic life support, including CPR, prior to the arrival of emergency medical personnel , subject to physician orders and the resident’s advance directives.

Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public.

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.

Keep all essential equipment working safely.

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

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

Keep residents' personal and medical records private and confidential.

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

Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms.