New Mexico State Veterans Home

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

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.

Encode each resident’s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment.

Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.

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

Plan the resident's discharge to meet the resident's goals and needs.

Ensure necessary information is communicated to the resident, and receiving health care provider at the time of a planned discharge.

Assist a resident in gaining access to vision and hearing services.

Provide the appropriate treatment and services to a resident who displays or is diagnosed with mental disorder or psychosocial adjustment difficulty, or who has a history of trauma and/or post-traumatic stress disorder.

Provide or obtain dental services for each resident.

Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.

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

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

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

Assess the resident completely in a timely manner when first admitted, and then periodically, at least every 12 months.

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

Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.

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

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

Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.

Assess the resident completely in a timely manner when first admitted, and then periodically, at least every 12 months.

Encode each resident’s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment.

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

Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.

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

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

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

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