Inspection Results » Aspen Meadows Health and Rehabilitation Center

  1. Health Inspection on April 23, 2018 [1]

    1. Isolated: Immediate jeopardy to the resident health or safety
      • Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health. (Corrected 2018-05-28)
    2. Isolated: Actual harm that is not immediate jeopardy
      • Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. (Corrected 2018-05-28)
      • Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals. (Corrected 2018-05-28)
    3. Widespread: No actual harm with potential for more than minimal harm that is not immediate jeopardy
      • Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies and develop corrective plans of action. (Corrected 2018-05-28)
      • Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift. (Corrected 2018-05-28)
    4. Pattern: No actual harm with potential for more than minimal harm that is not immediate jeopardy
      • Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. (Corrected 2018-05-28)
      • Have a registered nurse on duty 8 hours a day; and select a registered nurse to be the director of nurses on a full time basis. (Corrected 2018-05-28)
      • Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. (Corrected 2018-05-28)
      • Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. (Corrected 2018-05-28)
    5. Isolated: No actual harm with potential for more than minimal harm that is not immediate jeopardy
      • Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. (Corrected 2018-05-28)
      • 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. (Corrected 2018-05-28)
      • Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services. (Corrected 2018-05-28)
      • Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. (Corrected 2018-05-28)
      • Provide or obtain dental services for each resident. (Corrected 2018-05-28)
      • Ensure necessary information is communicated to the resident, and receiving health care provider at the time of a planned discharge. (Corrected 2018-05-28)

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