Polaris Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center

Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.

Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Ensure nurse aides have the skills they need to care for residents, and give nurse aides education in dementia care and abuse prevention.

Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.

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

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

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

Not transfer or discharge a resident without an adequate reason; and must provide documentation and convey specific information when a resident is transferred or discharged.

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

Conduct mandatory training, for all staff, on the facility’s Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement Program.

Provide training in compliance and ethics.

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

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

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.

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 or obtain dental services for each resident.

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

Develop, implement, and/or maintain an effective training program that includes effective communications for direct care staff members.

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

Observe each nurse aide's job performance and give regular training.

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

Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.

Ensure each resident receives and the facility provides food prepared in a form designed to meet individual needs.

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

Provide or obtain laboratory tests/services when ordered and promptly tell the ordering practitioner of the results.

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

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

Obtain a doctor's order to admit a resident and ensure the resident is under a doctor's care.

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

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

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

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

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

Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.

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

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

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

PASARR screening for Mental disorders or Intellectual Disabilities

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

Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.

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