Gino J Merli Veterans Center

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

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

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

Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.

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

Provide the appropriate treatment and services to a resident who displays or is diagnosed with dementia.

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

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.

Honor the resident's right to receive visitors of his or her choosing, at the time of his or her choosing.

Honor the resident's right to organize and participate in resident/family groups in the facility.

Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.

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

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

Assess the resident completely in a timely manner when first admitted, and then periodically, at least every 12 months.

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

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

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

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

Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.

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.

Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.

Provide the appropriate treatment and services to a resident who displays or is diagnosed with dementia.

Conduct and document a facility-wide assessment to determine what resources are necessary to care for residents competently during both day-to-day operations and emergencies.

Ensure nurse aides have the skills they need to care for residents, and give nurse aides education in dementia care and abuse prevention.

Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.

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

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

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.

Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies and develop corrective plans of action.

Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice.

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.

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

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

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.

Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.

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

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

Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.

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

Keep accurate, complete and organized clinical records on each resident that meet professional standards.