AVON HEALTH CENTER (AVON, CT) Detailed Nursing Home Profile

Staff Information

Number of Registered Nurses Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.670
Connecticut:	0.770

Number of Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses Hours Per Resident Per Day

Here:	0.500
State:	0.777

Total Number of Licensed Staff Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	1.170
State:	1.538

Number of ,Certified Nurse Assistant Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.110
State:	0.108

Number Therapy Hours Per Resident Per Day

Here:	0.110
Connecticut:	0.108

Quality Measures

Percent of long-stay residents whose need for help with daily activities has increased

This Nursing Home:	17.1%
State:	17.6%

Percent of long-stay residents who self-report moderate to severe pain

Here:	8.5%
State:	7.9%

Percent of long-stay high-risk residents with pressure ulcers

Here:	6.8%
Connecticut:	5.1%

Percent of long-stay residents who lose too much weight

Here:	5.7%
State:	6.5%

Percent of long-stay residents who have had a catheter inserted and left in their bladder

This Nursing Home:	2.7%
Connecticut:	2.9%

Percent of long-stay residents with a urinary tract infection

Here:	2.3%
State:	5.4%

Percent of long-stay residents experiencing one or more falls with major injury

This Nursing Home:	4.4%
State:	3.0%

Percent of long-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the seasonal influenza vaccine

Here:	100.0%
State:	95.2%

Percent of long-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the pneumococcal vaccine

This Nursing Home:	98.9%
State:	95.0%

Percent of short-stay residents who self-report moderate to severe pain

Here:	12.2%
Connecticut:	21.5%

Percent of short-stay residents with Pressure ulcers that are new or worsened

Here:	1.7%
State:	1.1%

Percent of short-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the seasonal influenza vaccine

This Nursing Home:	93.5%
State:	85.5%

Percent of short-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the pneumococcal vaccine

Here:	93.5%
Connecticut:	82.1%

Percent of short-stay residents who newly received an antipsychotic medication

This Nursing Home:	6.1%
Connecticut:	2.6%

Percent of long-stay residents who received an antipsychotic medication

This Nursing Home:	12.4%
Connecticut:	25.2%

Complaint Deficiency

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
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Review or revise the resident's care plan after any major change in a resident's physical or mental health
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Follow policies and procedures to convey the resident's personal funds to the appropriate party responsible after the resident's death
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Exits that are accessible at all times
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Properly hold, secure and manage each resident's personal money which is deposited with the nursing home
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Walls or barriers that prevent smoke from passing through and would resist fire for at least one hour
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Construction that can resist fire for one hour or an approved fire extinguishing system
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Other fire safety features required by fire safety codes
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Conduct initial and periodic assessments of each resident's functional capacity
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that the nursing home area is free from accident hazards and risks and provides supervision to prevent avoidable accidents
- Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
- Scope: Few
Make sure that doctors visit residents regularly, as required
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Maintain drug records and properly mark/label drugs and other similar products according to accepted professional standards
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Keep each resident free from physical restraints, unless needed for medical treatment
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
1) Hire only people with no legal history of abusing, neglecting or mistreating residents; or 2) report and investigate any acts or reports of abuse, neglect or mistreatment of residents
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Conduct initial and periodic assessments of each resident's functional capacity
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Allow the resident the right to participate in the planning or revision of the resident's care plan
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Provide necessary care and services to maintain the highest well being of each resident
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that each residents' abilities in activities of daily living do not decline, unless unavoidable
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Give residents proper treatment to prevent new bed (pressure) sores or heal existing bed sores
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that the nursing home area is free from accident hazards and risks and provides supervision to prevent avoidable accidents
- Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
- Scope: Few
Operate and provide services according to Federal, State, and local laws and professional standards
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Corridor and hallway doors that block smoke
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Walls or barriers that prevent smoke from passing through and would resist fire for at least one hour
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Protected exits that allow the resident to escape the building
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Allow the resident the right to participate in the planning or revision of the resident's care plan
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that the nursing home area is free from accident hazards and risks and provides supervision to prevent avoidable accidents
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few

AVON HEALTH CENTER - AVON, CT

Staff Information

Quality Measures

Complaint Deficiency

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