Baldwin Gardens Nursing Center

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.

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

Provide the required documentation or notification related to the resident's needs, appeal rights, or bed-hold policies.

Assess the resident when there is a significant change in condition

Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.

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

Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.

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

Make sure that a working call system is available in each resident's bathroom and bathing area.

Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.

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.

Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.

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

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.

Try different approaches before using a bed rail. If a bed rail is needed, the facility must (1) assess a resident for safety risk; (2) review these risks and benefits with the resident/representative; (3) get informed consent; and (4) Correctly install and maintain the bed rail.

Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.

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 for the safe, appropriate administration of IV fluids for a resident when needed.

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

Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.

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

Post nurse staffing information every day.

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

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

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

Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.

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

Provide activities to meet all resident's needs.

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