Bixby Towers Post-Acute Rehab

Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.

Provide basic life support, including CPR, prior to the arrival of emergency medical personnel , subject to physician orders and the resident’s advance directives.

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.

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

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.

Keep all essential equipment working safely.

Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.

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

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

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 get specialized rehabilitative services as required for a resident.

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

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

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

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

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

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 a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.

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

Honor the resident's right to be treated with respect and dignity and to retain and use personal possessions.

Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.

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

Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube.

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

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

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

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.

Keep all essential equipment working safely.

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

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Have the Quality Assessment and Assurance group have the required members and meet at least quarterly

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

Ensure the resident's doctor reviews the resident's care, writes, signs and dates progress notes and orders, at each required visit.

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

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

Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited.

Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.

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

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.

Give residents notice of Medicaid/Medicare coverage and potential liability for services not covered.

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 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.

Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.

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

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

Dispose of garbage and refuse properly.

Provide or obtain dental services for each resident.

Implement a program that monitors antibiotic use.

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

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