Hillcrest Health And Rehabilitation Center

Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.

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

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

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

Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.

Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.

Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.

Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.

Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights.

Permit a resident to return to the nursing home after hospitalization or therapeutic leave that exceeds bed-hold policy.

Develop a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.

Provide care by qualified persons according to each resident's written plan of care.

Assist those residents who need help with eating/drinking, grooming and personal and oral hygiene.

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.

Properly care for residents needing special services, including: injections, colostomy, ureostomy, ileostomy, tracheostomy care, tracheal suctioning, respiratory care, foot care, and prostheses.

Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading.