Westwood Post Acute

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

Provide a neutral and fair arbitration process and agree to arbitrator and venue.

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

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

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 receives and the facility provides drinks consistent with resident needs and preferences and sufficient to maintain resident hydration.

Ensure meals and snacks are served at times in accordance with resident’s needs, preferences, and requests. Suitable and nourishing alternative meals and snacks must be provided for residents who want to eat at non-traditional times or outside of scheduled meal times.

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.

Permit a resident to return to the nursing home after hospitalization or therapeutic leave that exceeds bed-hold policy.

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

Provide care by qualified persons according to each resident's written plan of care.

Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.

Provide activities to meet all resident's needs.

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

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

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

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

Provide or obtain dental services for each resident.

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

Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public.

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

Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.

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

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.

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.

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.

Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.

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 enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.