LAKEPORT POST ACUTE

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

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.

Ensure food and drink is palatable, attractive, and at a safe and appetizing temperature.

Have the Quality Assessment and Assurance group have the required members and meet at least quarterly

The resident has the right to receive notices in a format and a language he or she understands.

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

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

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

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.

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

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

Assist a resident in gaining access to vision and hearing services.

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

Let each resident or the resident's legal representative access or purchase copies of all the resident's records.

Ensure menus must meet the nutritional needs of residents, be prepared in advance, be followed, be updated, be reviewed by dietician, and meet the needs of the resident.

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

Keep all essential equipment working safely.

Give the resident's representative the ability to exercise the resident's rights.

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

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

Give the resident's representative the ability to exercise the resident's rights.

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

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.

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

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.

Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift.

Ensure food and drink is palatable, attractive, and at a safe and appetizing temperature.

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

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

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

Obtain a doctor's order to admit a resident and ensure the resident is under a doctor's care.

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

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

Allow resident to participate in the development and implementation of his or her person-centered plan of care.

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

PASARR screening for Mental disorders or Intellectual Disabilities

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

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.