Inspection Results » The Hills Nursing & Rehabilitation

  1. Health Inspection on February 8, 2019 [1]

    1. Widespread: 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 2019-03-04)
    2. Pattern: No actual harm with potential for more than minimal harm that is not immediate jeopardy
      • Provide doctor's orders for the resident's immediate care at the time the resident was admitted. (Corrected 2019-03-04)
      • Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. (Corrected 2019-03-04)
    3. 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 2019-03-04)
      • Ensure necessary information is communicated to the resident, and receiving health care provider at the time of a planned discharge. (Corrected 2019-03-04)
      • Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. (Corrected 2019-03-04)
      • Keep all essential equipment working safely. (Corrected 2019-03-04)
      • Ensure residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason. (Corrected 2019-03-04)
      • Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted (Corrected 2019-03-04)
    4. Widespread: No actual harm with potential for minimal harm
      • Ensure residents have reasonable access to and privacy in their use of communication methods. (Corrected 2019-03-04)

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