Whittier Pacific Care Center

Post nurse staffing information every day.

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

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

Post nurse staffing information every day.

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.

Ensure a qualified health professional conducts resident assessments.

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

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

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.

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

Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.

Try different approaches before using a bed rail. If a bed rail is needed, the facility must (1) assess a resident for safety risk; (2) review these risks and benefits with the resident/representative; (3) get informed consent; and (4) Correctly install and maintain the bed rail.

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.

Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.

Dispose of garbage and refuse properly.

Provide or get specialized rehabilitative services as required for a resident.

Inform resident or representatives choice to enter into binding arbitration agreement and right to refuse.

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

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms.

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

Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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