Centro De Cuidado Prolongado San Lucas

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

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

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

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

Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate.

Honor the resident's right to choose his or her attending physician.

Honor the resident's right to be treated with respect and dignity and to retain and use personal possessions.

Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.

Honor the resident's right to share a room with spouse or roommate of choice and receive written notice before a change is made.

Protect a residents' right to refuse some types of non-requested transfers within the nursing home.

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

Provide immediate access to any resident.

Honor the resident's right to receive visitors of his or her choosing, at the time of his or her choosing.

Inform each resident of his or her visitation rights and ensure that all visitors enjoy equal visitation privileges.

Honor the resident's right to organize and participate in resident/family groups in the facility.

1) Protect residents from being forced to work at the nursing home, or 2) let residents work if they want to.

Honor the resident's right to manage his or her financial affairs.

Properly hold, secure, and manage each resident's personal money which is deposited with the nursing home.

Notify each resident of certain balances and convey resident funds upon discharge, eviction, or death.

Assure the security of all personal funds of residents deposited with the facility.

Limit the charges against residents' personal funds for items or services for which payment is made under Medicare or Medicaid.

Give residents a notice of rights, rules, services and charges.

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

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

Post a list of names, addresses, and telephone numbers of all pertinent State agencies and advocacy groups and a statement that the resident may file a complaint with the State Survey Agency.

Ensure residents have reasonable access to and privacy in their use of communication methods.

Allow residents to easily view the nursing home's survey results and communicate with advocate agencies.

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.

Provide information about how to apply for and use Medicare and Medicaid benefits.

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