Inspection Results » Greater El Monte Community Hos

  1. Health Inspection on August 25, 2018 [1]

    1. Pattern: No actual harm with potential for more than minimal harm that is not immediate jeopardy
      • Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. (Corrected 2018-09-21)
      • Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed. (Corrected 2018-09-21)
    2. Isolated: No actual harm with potential for more than minimal harm that is not immediate jeopardy
      • 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. (Corrected 2018-09-21)
      • 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. (Corrected 2018-09-21)
      • Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater. (Corrected 2018-09-21)
      • Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. (Corrected 2018-09-21)
      • Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections. (Corrected 2018-09-21)
      • Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing. (Corrected 2018-09-21)
      • Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted (Corrected 2018-09-21)
      • Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. (Corrected 2018-09-21)
      • Keep residents' personal and medical records private and confidential. (Corrected 2018-09-21)

To be part of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, nursing homes have to meet certain requirements set by Congress. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has entered into an agreement with state governments to do health inspections and fire safety inspections of these nursing homes and investigate complaints about nursing home care. [2]

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References

  1. http://www.medicare.gov/NursingHomeCompare/About/Health-Inspections.html
  2. http://www.medicare.gov/NursingHomeCompare/About/Inspection-Results.html