Yuma Life Care Center

Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.

Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money.

Ensure residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason.

Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.

Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.

Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.

Protect each resident from all abuse, physical punishment, and involuntary separation from others.

1) Hire only people with no legal history of abusing, neglecting or mistreating residents; or 2) report and investigate any acts or reports of abuse, neglect or mistreatment of residents.

Give the right treatment and services to residents who display physical or psychosocial problems adapting to changes in circumstances.

Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provide adequate supervision to prevent avoidable accidents.

Ensure that each resident's 1) entire drug/medication regimen is free from unnecessary drugs; and 2) is managed and monitored to achieve highest level of well-being.

Have enough nurses to care for every resident in a way that maximizes the resident's well being.

Make sure that the facility is administered in an acceptable way that maintains the well-being of each resident .

Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies quarterly, and develop corrective plans of action.

Try to resolve each resident's complaints quickly.

Provide activities to meet the interests and needs of each resident.

Provide necessary care and services to maintain or improve the highest well being of each resident .

Give residents proper treatment to prevent new bed (pressure) sores or heal existing bed sores.

Ensure that each resident who enters the nursing home without a catheter is not given a catheter, unless medically necessary, and that incontinent patients receive proper services to prevent urinary tract infections and restore normal bladder functions.

Maintain drug records and properly mark/label drugs and other similar products according to accepted professional standards.