GARDINER HEALTH CARE FACILITY - HOULTON, ME

Complaint Deficiency

• 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
• Provide housekeeping and maintenance services
  • Harm: Potential for minimal 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: Some
• 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: Some
• 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: Some
• Make sure that each resident who enters the nursing home without a catheter is not given a catheter, and receive proper services to prevent urinary tract infections and restore normal bladder function
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Some
• Keep accurate, complete and organized clinical records on each resident that meet professional standards
  • Harm: Potential for minimal harm
  • Scope: Some
• Construction that can resist fire for one hour or an approved fire extinguishing system
  • Harm: Potential for minimal harm
  • Scope: Many
• An approved installation, maintenance and testing program for fire alarm systems
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Many
• Give each resident a notice of rights, rules, services and charges. Tell each resident who can get Medicaid benefits about 1) which items and services Medicaid covers and which the resident must pay for
  • Harm: Potential for minimal harm
  • Scope: Some
• Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor and a family member of the resident of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Some
• Conduct initial and periodic assessments of each resident's functional capacity
  • Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
  • Scope: Some
• Develop a complete care plan that meets all of a resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured
  • Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
  • Scope: Some
• 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
• Prevent a loss in range of motion among residents who entered the nursing home with a full range of motion unless it was unavoidable
  • Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
  • Scope: Some
• Make sure that residents with reduced range of motion get proper treatment and services to increase range of motion
  • Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
  • Scope: Some
• 1) Make sure that each resident's drug regimen is free from unnecessary drugs; 2) Each resident's entire drug/medication is managed and monitored to achieve highest well being
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Some
• Be administered in an acceptable way that maintains the well-being of each resident
  • Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
  • Scope: Some
• Operate and provide services according to Federal, State, and local laws and professional standards
  • Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
  • Scope: Some
• 1) Receive registry verification that a nurse aide has met the required training and skills that the State requires; and 2) ensure nurse aides receive the required retraining after 24 months if nursing related services were not provided for monetary compensation
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Some
• 1) Review the work of each nurse aide every year; and 2) give regular in-service training based upon these reviews
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Some
• Keep accurate, complete and organized clinical records on each resident that meet professional standards
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Some
• Corridor and hallway doors that block smoke
  • Harm: Potential for minimal harm
  • Scope: Many
• Did not have a written emergency evacuation plan
  • Harm: Potential for minimal harm
  • Scope: Many
• Provide care for residents in a way that keeps or builds each resident's dignity and respect of individuality
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Provide care by qualified persons according to each resident's written plan of care
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• 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: Few
• Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Some
• Operate and provide services according to Federal, State, and local laws and professional standards
  • Harm: Potential for minimal harm
  • Scope: Many
• Keep accurate, complete and organized clinical records on each resident that meet professional standards
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few

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