Colville Health and Rehabilitation of Cascadia

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

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

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

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

Keep residents' personal and medical records private and confidential.

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.

Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.

Prevent the use of unnecessary psychotropic medications or use medications that may restrain a resident's ability to function.

Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft.

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

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 care or services that was trauma informed and/or culturally competent.

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

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.

Have a registered nurse on duty 8 hours a day; and select a registered nurse to be the director of nurses on a full time basis.

Ensure each resident must receive and the facility must provide necessary behavioral health care and services.

Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.

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.

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

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

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.

Have a plan that describes the process for conducting QAPI and QAA activities.

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

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

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

Educate residents and staff on COVID-19 vaccination, offer the COVID-19 vaccine to eligible residents and staff after education, and properly document each resident and staff member's vaccination status.

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

Develop, implement, and/or maintain an effective training program that includes effective communications for direct care staff members.

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