Cotton Point Living Center

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.

Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft.

Assure that each resident’s assessment is updated at least once every 3 months.

Encode each resident’s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment.

Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted

Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.

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.

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

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

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

Assess the resident when there is a significant change in condition

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.

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

Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.

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.

Make sure that a working call system is available in each resident's bathroom and bathing area.

Allow residents to easily view the nursing home's survey results and communicate with advocate agencies.

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.

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

Prepare residents for a safe transfer or discharge from the nursing home.

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

Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.

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.

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

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

Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.

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

Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.

Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.

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.

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

Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.

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

Ensure that nurse aides who have worked more than 4 months, are trained and competent; and nurse aides who have worked less than 4 months are enrolled in appropriate training.

Verify that a nurse aide has been trained; and if they haven't worked as a nurse aide for 2 years, receive retraining.

Keep residents' personal and medical records private and confidential.

Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted

Post nurse staffing information every day.

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.

Review or revise the resident's care plan after any major change in physical or mental health.

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

Provide proper discharge planning and communication, of the resident's health status and summary of the resident's nursing home stay.

Ensure residents maintain acceptable nutritional status.

Make sure menus meet the resident's nutritional needs and that there is a prepared menu by which nutritious meals have been planned for the resident and followed.

Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way.

Make sure there is a pest control program to prevent/deal with mice, insects, or other pests.