Adviniacare Newburyport

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

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

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

Provide timely, approved x-ray services, or have an agreement with an approved provider to obtain them.

Develop, implement, and/or maintain an effective training program for all new and existing staff members.

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

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.

Ensure menus must meet the nutritional needs of residents, be prepared in advance, be followed, be updated, be reviewed by dietician, and meet the needs of the resident.

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

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

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

Provide behavior health training consistent with the requirements and as determined by a facility assessment.

Employ sufficient staff with the appropriate competencies and skills sets to carry out the functions of the food and nutrition service, including a qualified dietician.

Give their staff education on dementia care, and what abuse, neglect, and exploitation are; and how to report abuse, neglect, and exploitation.

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

Designate a qualified infection preventionist to be responsible for the infection prevent and control program in the nursing home.

Implement a program that monitors antibiotic use.

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.

Include as part of its infection prevention and control program, mandatory training that includes written standards, policies, and procedures for the program.

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

Ensure that staff members are educated on resident rights and facility responsibilities to properly care for its residents.

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

Provide training in compliance and ethics.

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

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

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

Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.

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

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.

Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.

Provide or obtain dental services for each resident.

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

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

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

Ensure that the resident and his/her doctor meet face-to-face at all required visits.

Ensure that the facility has sufficient staff members who possess the competencies and skills to meet the behavioral health needs of residents.

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

Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.

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

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 appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.

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

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

Honor the resident's right to voice grievances without discrimination or reprisal and the facility must establish a grievance policy and make prompt efforts to resolve grievances.