KOKOMO HEALTHCARE CENTER
Inspection History Overview
Health Violations by Year
2024 5 violations
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Try different approaches before using a bed rail. If a bed rail is needed, the facility must (1) assess a resident for safety risk; (2) review these risks and benefits with the resident/representative; (3) get informed consent; and (4) Correctly install and maintain the bed rail.
Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited.
Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being.
Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
2023 32 violations
Honor the resident's right to organize and participate in resident/family groups in the facility.
Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed.
Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason.
Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift.
Ensure each resident must receive and the facility must provide necessary behavioral health care and services.
Provide or obtain dental services for each resident.
Ensure food and drink is palatable, attractive, and at a safe and appetizing temperature.
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.
Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate.
2022 17 violations
Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
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.
Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited.
Provide timely, approved x-ray services, or have an agreement with an approved provider to obtain them.
Provide or obtain dental services for each resident.
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
2021 16 violations
Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
Ensure each resident must receive and the facility must provide necessary behavioral health care and services.
Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
Post nurse staffing information every day.
Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
2020 25 violations
Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money.
Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Dispose of garbage and refuse properly.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Report COVID19 data to residents and families.
Notify the resident or the resident’s representative in writing how long the nursing home will hold the resident’s bed in cases of transfer to a hospital or therapeutic leave.
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed.
Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
Plan the resident's discharge to meet the resident's goals and needs.
Ensure residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
Ensure each resident must receive and the facility must provide necessary behavioral health care and services.
Provide the appropriate treatment and services to a resident who displays or is diagnosed with mental disorder or psychosocial adjustment difficulty, or who has a history of trauma and/or post-traumatic stress disorder.
2019 25 violations
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
Give the resident's representative the ability to exercise the resident's rights.
Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money.
Honor each resident's preferences, choices, values and beliefs.
Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive.
Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed.
Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
Provide activities to meet all resident's needs.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Try different approaches before using a bed rail. If a bed rail is needed, the facility must (1) assess a resident for safety risk; (2) review these risks and benefits with the resident/representative; (3) get informed consent; and (4) Correctly install and maintain the bed rail.
Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being.
Post nurse staffing information every day.
Provide the appropriate treatment and services to a resident who displays or is diagnosed with dementia.
2018 15 violations
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public.
Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice.
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
PASARR screening for Mental disorders or Intellectual Disabilities
Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
Try different approaches before using a bed rail. If a bed rail is needed, the facility must (1) assess a resident for safety risk; (2) review these risks and benefits with the resident/representative; (3) get informed consent; and (4) Correctly install and maintain the bed rail.
Provide the appropriate treatment and services to a resident who displays or is diagnosed with dementia.
Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited.
Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
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.
Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
2017 7 violations
Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
Protect each resident from mistreatment, neglect and misappropriation of personal property.
Maintain drug records and properly mark/label drugs and other similar products according to accepted professional standards.
Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
Provide necessary care and services to maintain or improve the highest well being of each resident .
Properly care for residents needing special services, including: injections, colostomy, ureostomy, ileostomy, tracheostomy care, tracheal suctioning, respiratory care, foot care, and prostheses.
Keep accurate, complete and organized clinical records on each resident that meet professional standards.
2016 15 violations
Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
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.
Develop and implement policies for 1) screening and training employees; and the 2) prevention, identification, investigation, and reporting of any abuse, neglect, mistreatment and misappropriation of property.
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 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.
Keep the rate of medication errors (wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong time) to less than 5%.
Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way.
Maintain drug records and properly mark/label drugs and other similar products according to accepted professional standards.
Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading.
Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public.
Keep accurate, complete and organized clinical records on each resident that meet professional standards.
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Fines and Penalties by Year
2022 2 penalties totaling $18,890
2021 8 penalties totaling $206,208
2020 1 penalties totaling $20,000
2017 1 penalties totaling $14,300
Fire Safety Deficiencies
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