NORTHWOODS CARE CENTRE (BELVIDERE, IL) Detailed Nursing Home Profile

Staff Information

Number of Registered Nurses Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.960
Illinois:	0.751

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

Here:	0.300
State:	0.595

Total Number of Licensed Staff Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	1.260
Illinois:	1.342

Number of ,Certified Nurse Assistant Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.030
Illinois:	0.080

Number Therapy Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.030
Illinois:	0.089

Complaint Deficiency

Exits that are accessible at all times
- Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
- Scope: Few
Proper backup exit lighting
- 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
Provide doctors orders for the resident's immediate care, at the time the resident was admitted
- 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: Few
An approved back-up procedure for a faulty fire alarm system
- 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
Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Approved construction type or materials
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Corridor and hallway doors that block smoke
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Proper stairway enclosures and vertical shafts
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
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: Some
Construction that can resist fire for one hour or an approved fire extinguishing system
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Did not have a written emergency evacuation plan
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Record of quarterly fire drills for each shift under varying conditions
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Properly maintained smoke detectors
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Properly protected cooking facilities
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Properly constructed linen or trash chutes
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Proper medical gas storage and administration areas
- 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
Corridor and hallway doors that block smoke
- 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: Some
Construction that can resist fire for one hour or an approved fire extinguishing system
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Exits that are accessible at all times
- 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: Many
Properly maintained smoke detectors
- 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: Few
Keep each resident free from physical restraints, unless needed for medical treatment
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
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 housekeeping and maintenance services
- 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: Few
Assist those residents who need total help with eating/drinking, grooming and personal and oral hygiene
- 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 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: Few
Make sure that residents with reduced range of motion get proper treatment and services to increase range of motion
- 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: 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 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
Prepare food that is nutritional, appetizing, tasty, attractive, well-cooked, and at the right temperature
- 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
Make sure that paid feeding assistants 1) completed training; 2) works under the supervision of a RN or LPN; and 3) feeds only residents who have no complicated feeding problems
- Harm: 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
Keep all essential equipment working safely
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Keep each resident free from physical restraints, unless needed for medical treatment
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
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
Provide medically-related social services to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Provide a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Make sure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Assist those residents who need total help with eating/drinking, grooming and personal and oral hygiene
- 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: Few
Give proper treatment to residents with feeding tubes to prevent problems (such as aspiration pneumonia, diarrhea, vomiting, dehydration, metabolic abnormalities, nasal-pharyngeal ulcers) and help restore eating skills, if possible
- 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
Prepare food that is nutritional, appetizing, tasty, attractive, well-cooked, and at the right temperature
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Offer other nutritional food to each resident who will not eat the food served
- 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
Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
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
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: Some
Construction that can resist fire for one hour or an approved fire extinguishing system
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Did not have a written emergency evacuation plan
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Record of quarterly fire drills for each shift under varying conditions
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Properly protected cooking facilities
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Proper construction of ducts through walls designed to prevent smoke passage
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Weekly inspections and monthly testing of generators
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Back-up procedures in place for a faulty automatic sprinkler system
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
An approved back-up procedure for a faulty fire alarm system
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Properly installed hallway dispensers for alcohol-based hand rub
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some

Quality Measures

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

This Nursing Home:	14.3%
State:	14.9%

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

Here:	4.2%
Illinois:	8.4%

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

Here:	4.1%
State:	7.3%

Percent of long-stay residents who lose too much weight

This Nursing Home:	11.0%
State:	8.1%

Percent of long-stay low-risk residents who lose control of their bowels or bladder

This Nursing Home:	69.0%
State:	32.8%

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

Here:	1.0%
State:	4.5%

Percent of long-stay residents with a urinary tract infection

Here:	2.2%
State:	6.8%

Percent of long-stay residents who have depressive symptoms

Here:	18.7%
State:	7.7%

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

Here:	4.3%
Illinois:	3.4%

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

Here:	90.2%
State:	93.9%

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

Here:	100.0%
Illinois:	92.9%

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

Here:	20.0%
State:	19.2%

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

Here:	1.4%
State:	1.9%

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

This Nursing Home:	58.4%
Illinois:	81.0%

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

Here:	88.5%
State:	80.2%

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

Here:	2.1%
State:	2.5%

Percent of long-stay residents who received an antipsychotic medication

This Nursing Home:	25.3%
State:	24.2%

NORTHWOODS CARE CENTRE - BELVIDERE, IL

Staff Information

Complaint Deficiency

Quality Measures

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