Creekside Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing

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

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

Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.

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

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

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

Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

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

Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.

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

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

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.

Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money.

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

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

Notify the resident or the resident’s representative in writing how long the nursing home will hold the resident’s bed in cases of transfer to a hospital or therapeutic leave.

Assess the resident when there is a significant change in condition

Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason.

Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.

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

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.

Observe each nurse aide's job performance and give regular training.

Post nurse staffing information every day.

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

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

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

Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.

Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.

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