St. Joseph's Hospital - Skilled Nursing Facility

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.

Ensure the facility is licensed under applicable State and local law and operates and provides services in compliance with all applicable Federal, State, and local laws, regulations, and codes, and with accepted professional standards.

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

Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.

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

Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.

Ensure residents have the right to have a choice over activities, their schedules, and health care according to their interests, assessments, and plans of care.

Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.

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%.

Provide or obtain dental services for each resident.

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

Keep all essential equipment working safely.