VILLA MARIA CARE CENTER - LONG BEACH, CA

Quality Measures

Staff Information

Complaint Deficiency

• Hire a qualified dietician
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Hire a qualified full-time social worker in a facility with more than 120 beds
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Some
• Fire-resistant room wall surfaces
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Portable fire extinguishers
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Properly protected cooking facilities
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Other fire safety features required by fire safety codes
  • 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
• 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
• 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
• 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: Few
• Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way
  • Harm: Potential for minimal harm
  • Scope: Many
• Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Some
• Provide bedrooms that hold no more than 4 residents per room
  • Harm: Potential for minimal harm
  • Scope: Some
• Give or get quality lab services/tests in a timely manner to meet the needs of residents
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• 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: 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
• Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident
  • 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: 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Some
• At least once a month, have a licensed pharmacist review each resident's medication(s) and report any irregularities to the attending doctor
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Some
• Fire-resistant room wall surfaces
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Some
• Portable fire extinguishers
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Some
• Posted No-smoking signs in areas where smoking is not permitted or did not provide ashtrays where smoking was allowed
  • Harm: Potential for minimal harm
  • Scope: Many
• Properly protected cooking facilities
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Exits that are free from obstructions and can be used at all times
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Send and promptly deliver unopened mail to residents
  • 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: Some
• Provide housekeeping and maintenance services
  • Harm: Potential for minimal harm
  • Scope: Some
• Conduct initial and periodic assessments of each resident's functional capacity
  • 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
• Give residents proper treatment to prevent new bed (pressure) sores or heal existing bed sores
  • Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
  • 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: Some
• Make sure that the nursing home area is free from accident hazards and risks and provides supervision to prevent avoidable accidents
  • Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
  • Scope: Few
• Make sure that each resident gets a nutritional and well balanced diet, unless it is not possible to do so
  • Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
  • 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: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
  • Scope: Few
• Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way
  • Harm: Potential for minimal harm
  • Scope: Many
• 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: 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: Potential for minimal 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: Potential for minimal harm
  • Scope: Some
• Have enough outside ventilation via a window or mechanical ventilation, or both
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Fire-resistant interior walls
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Many
• Fire-resistant room wall surfaces
  • 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: Few
• Construction that can resist fire for one hour or an approved fire extinguishing system
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Portable fire extinguishers
  • Harm: Potential for minimal harm
  • Scope: Many
• Restrictions on the use of flammable curtains
  • 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
• Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Many