Alaska Gardens Health and Rehabilitation

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

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.

Employ staff that are licensed, certified, or registered in accordance with state laws.

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.

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

Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.

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

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

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

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

Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.

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

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 that residents are free from significant medication errors.

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

Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies and develop corrective plans of action.

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

Conduct mandatory training, for all staff, on the facility’s Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement Program.

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.

Ensure residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason.

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

Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.

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 routine and 24-hour emergency dental care for each resident.

Provide or obtain dental services for each resident.

Keep all essential equipment working safely.

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

Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.