Mayo Clinic Health System - Lake City

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

Ensure residents have reasonable access to and privacy in their use of communication methods.

Give residents notice of Medicaid/Medicare coverage and potential liability for services not covered.

Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.

Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.

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

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 dementia.

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

Develop and implement policies and procedures for flu and pneumonia vaccinations.

Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.

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

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

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.

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

Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.

Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.

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.

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

Ensure that each resident is free from the use of physical restraints, unless needed for medical treatment.

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 and implement an infection prevention and control program.

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

Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.

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 voice grievances without discrimination or reprisal and the facility must establish a grievance policy and make prompt efforts to resolve grievances.

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

Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.

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.

Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.

Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.

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

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 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.

Provide medically-related social services to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life.

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment by a qualified health professional.

Keep the rate of medication errors (wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong time) to less than 5%.