ADIRONDACK MEDICAL CENTER UIHLEIN (LAKE PLACID, NY) Detailed Nursing Home Profile

Staff Information

Number of Registered Nurses Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.530
New York:	0.637

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

This Nursing Home:	0.550
New York:	0.790

Total Number of Licensed Staff Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	1.070
State:	1.425

Number of ,Certified Nurse Assistant Hours Per Resident Per Day

Here:	0.080
New York:	0.080

Number Therapy Hours Per Resident Per Day

Here:	0.080
New York:	0.081

Quality Measures

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

Here:	33.3%
State:	15.6%

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

This Nursing Home:	9.4%
New York:	7.6%

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

This Nursing Home:	9.4%
State:	8.4%

Percent of long-stay residents who lose too much weight

Here:	12.0%
State:	6.4%

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

This Nursing Home:	4.2%
State:	3.1%

Percent of long-stay residents with a urinary tract infection

Here:	12.0%
New York:	6.8%

Percent of long-stay residents who have depressive symptoms

Here:	13.6%
State:	12.6%

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

This Nursing Home:	8.3%
State:	2.9%

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	96.7%

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

Here:	100.0%
New York:	97.3%

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

Here:	40.0%
State:	16.9%

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

Here:	91.1%
State:	86.9%

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

This Nursing Home:	85.7%
State:	85.0%

Percent of long-stay residents who received an antipsychotic medication

Here:	11.1%
State:	20.8%

Complaint Deficiency

Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Exits that are accessible at all times
- Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
- Scope: Few
Notify the resident or provide reasons for a transfer or discharge
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Tell the resident completely about his or her health status, care and treatments
- 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
Properly constructed linen or trash chutes
- 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
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: Actual harm
- Scope: Many
Provide proof that all residents' personal money which is deposited with the nursing home, is secure
- Harm: Actual harm
- Scope: Many
Fire-resistant room wall surfaces
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Hire sufficient dietary support personnel
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- 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
Rooms that can be unlocked from inside without a key
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
1) Provide 3 meals at regular times; 2) serve breakfast within 14 hours after dinner; or 3) offer a snack at bedtime each day
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Record of quarterly fire drills for each shift under varying conditions
- 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: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
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
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
Provide necessary care and services to maintain the highest well being of each resident
- Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
- 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: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- 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: Few
Keep the rate of medication errors (wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong time) to less than 5%
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Make sure that residents are safe from serious medication errors
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Have enough nurses to care for every resident in a way that maximizes the resident's well being
- 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: 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
Exits that are accessible at all times
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
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
Provide housekeeping and maintenance services
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Make sure each resident receives an accurate assessment by a qualified health professional
- Harm: Potential for minimal 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
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: Some
Provide care by qualified persons according to each resident's written plan of care
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program for mentally-ill and mentally-retarded patients
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Maintain 15 months of resident assessments in the resident's active clinical record
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Some
Have enough nurses to care for every resident in a way that maximizes the resident's well being
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
1) Provide 3 meals at regular times; 2) serve breakfast within 14 hours after dinner; or 3) offer a snack at bedtime each day
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
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: Some
Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading
- 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
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 housekeeping and maintenance services
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Make sure each resident receives an accurate assessment by a qualified health professional
- 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: Some
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 residents receive treatment/services to not only continue, but improve the ability to care for themselves
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that residents receive proper treatment and assistive devices to maintain their vision and hearing
- 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
Have enough nurses to care for every resident in a way that maximizes the resident's well being
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Post nurse staffing information/data on a daily basis
- 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
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
Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies quarterly, and develop corrective plans of action
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some

ADIRONDACK MEDICAL CENTER UIHLEIN - LAKE PLACID, NY

Staff Information

Quality Measures

Complaint Deficiency

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