LAWTON HEALTHCARE CENTER - SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Complaint Deficiency

• A two-hour-resistant firewall in common walls
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Proper medical gas storage and administration areas
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Provide housekeeping and maintenance services
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Some
• Properly care for residents needing special services, including: injections, colostomy, ureostomy, ileostomy, tracheostomy care, tracheal suctioning, respiratory care, foot care, and prostheses
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Some
• Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Train all employees on what to do in an emergency, and carry out announced staff drills
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Approved construction type or materials
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Some
• Corridors that are separated from common areas by walls constructed to limit the passage of smoke
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Some
• A fire alarm system that can be heard throughout the facility
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Some
• Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Try to resolve each resident's complaints quickly
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Provide written records when a resident is transferred or discharged
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Tell the resident or the resident's representative in writing how long the nursing home will hold the resident's bed
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Provide a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Some
• 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 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: Some
• Dispose of garbage and refuse properly
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Safely provide drugs and other similar products available, which are needed every day and in emergencies, by a licensed pharmacist
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Some
• Be designed, built, equipped, or well kept to protect the health and safety of residents, workers, and the public
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Many
• Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Many
• Portable fire extinguishers
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Some
• 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
• Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Develop a complete care plan that meets all of a resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured
  • 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
• Give each resident enough fluids to keep them healthy and prevent dehydration
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Properly care for residents needing special services, including: injections, colostomy, ureostomy, ileostomy, tracheostomy care, tracheal suctioning, respiratory care, foot care, and prostheses
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Make sure that residents are safe from serious medication errors
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Some
• Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Some
• Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public
  • 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
• An approved installation, maintenance and testing program for fire alarm systems
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Automatic sprinkler systems that have been maintained in working order
  • Harm: Potential for minimal harm
  • Scope: Many
• Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few

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Quality Measures