LIFE CARE CENTER OF KENNEWICK (KENNEWICK, WA) Detailed Nursing Home Profile

Staff Information

Number of Registered Nurses Hours Per Resident Per Day

Here:	1.160
Washington:	1.030

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

This Nursing Home:	0.570
Washington:	0.679

Total Number of Licensed Staff Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	1.720
Washington:	1.696

Number of ,Certified Nurse Assistant Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.110
State:	0.132

Number Therapy Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.110
Washington:	0.134

Complaint Deficiency

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: 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
Back-up procedures in place for a faulty automatic sprinkler system
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Completely assess the resident at least every twelve months
- 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: Some
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
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
Develop policies that prevent mistreatment, neglect, or abuse of residents or theft of resident property
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Approved construction type or materials
- Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
- Scope: Few
A separate and independent backup electrical power source
- 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
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
Signs that state that exit doors are to be kept closed
- 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
Signs that state that exit doors are to be kept closed
- 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
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
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
Exits that are accessible at all times
- 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: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
- Scope: Few
Resident room doors of proper design and width
- 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
Follow policies and procedures to convey the resident's personal funds to the appropriate party responsible after the resident's death
- Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
- Scope: Few
Hire sufficient dietary support personnel
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
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
Corridor and hallway doors that block smoke
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Automatic sprinkler systems that have been maintained in working order
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Proper fire barriers, ventilation and signs for the transport of oxygen
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Properly installed hallway dispensers for alcohol-based hand rub
- 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: Some
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: Some
An approved automatic sprinkler system connected to the fire alarm system
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
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: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Provide housekeeping and maintenance services
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Conduct initial and periodic assessments of each resident's functional capacity
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that each resident gets a nutritional and well balanced diet, unless it is not possible to do so
- 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: Many
Provide enough notice before discharging or transferring a resident
- 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: Many

Quality Measures

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

Here:	11.5%
State:	13.3%

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

This Nursing Home:	8.3%
Washington:	14.6%

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

Here:	7.3%
Washington:	6.0%

Percent of long-stay residents who lose too much weight

This Nursing Home:	5.1%
State:	7.5%

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

Here:	11.9%
Washington:	4.7%

Percent of long-stay residents with a urinary tract infection

Here:	15.3%
Washington:	8.3%

Percent of long-stay residents who have depressive symptoms

Here:	16.1%
Washington:	13.2%

Percent of long-stay residents who were physically restrained

This Nursing Home:	6.7%
Washington:	0.8%

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

This Nursing Home:	1.7%
Washington:	3.0%

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

This Nursing Home:	91.7%
Washington:	95.1%

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

This Nursing Home:	91.7%
State:	95.7%

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

This Nursing Home:	27.9%
State:	27.2%

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

Here:	0.7%
Washington:	1.5%

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

Here:	89.6%
State:	89.4%

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

Here:	82.4%
State:	87.7%

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

This Nursing Home:	2.2%
State:	2.1%

Percent of long-stay residents who received an antipsychotic medication

Here:	15.3%
State:	22.9%

LIFE CARE CENTER OF KENNEWICK - KENNEWICK, WA

Staff Information

Complaint Deficiency

Quality Measures

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