Inspection Results » Ellicott Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing

  1. Health Inspection on March 7, 2019 [1]

    1. Pattern: No actual harm with potential for more than minimal harm that is not immediate jeopardy
      • Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures. (Corrected 2019-04-15)
      • Keep all essential equipment working safely. (Corrected 2019-04-15)
      • Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. (Corrected 2019-04-15)
      • Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors. (Corrected 2019-02-27)
      • Ensure the resident's doctor reviews the resident's care, writes, signs and dates progress notes and orders, at each required visit. (Corrected 2019-04-15)
    2. Isolated: No actual harm with potential for more than minimal harm that is not immediate jeopardy
      • Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (Corrected 2019-04-15)
      • Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice. (Corrected 2019-04-15)
      • Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable. (Corrected 2019-04-15)
      • Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services. (Corrected 2019-04-15)
    3. Pattern: No actual harm with potential for minimal harm
      • Assure that each residentÂ’s assessment is updated at least once every 3 months. (Corrected 2019-04-15)
      • Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights. (Corrected 2019-04-15)

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