Alvarado Care Center
ALVARADO CARE CENTER in LOS ANGELES, CA — inspection on August 22, 2025.
Found 1 citation. Severity: Standard violations.
Health inspections identify deficiencies that facilities must correct within required timeframes. Violations range from minor documentation issues to serious safety concerns and are subject to follow-up verification.
Inspection Findings
During a review of a P&P titled, Change of Condition Notification, reviewed 5/19/2025, the P&P indicated, To ensure residents, family, legal representatives, and physicians are informed of changes in the resident's condition in a timely manner.
The same P&P defined an acute change in condition (ACOC) as, is a sudden, clinically important deviation from a patient's baseline in physical, cognitive, behavioral, or functional domains.
Clinically important means a deviation that, without intervention, may result in complications or death).
The P&P's further indicated the following:The Licensed Nurse will notify the residents' Attending Physician when there is an:A significant change in the resident's physical, mental or psychosocial status, e.g., deterioration in health, mental or psychosocial status, life-threatening conditions or clinical complications.A need to alter treatment significantly (e.g. based on lab/x-ray results, a need to discontinue an existing form of treatment due to change of condition).
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Source: This inspection report was downloaded directly from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) via Medicare.gov. CMS releases nursing home inspection reports in bulk. The findings reflect what state surveyors documented in the official Form CMS-2567 Statement of Deficiencies on the date of the inspection.
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