WINDCREST HEALTHCARE CENTER - ABILENE, TX

Staff Information

Quality Measures

Complaint Deficiency

• 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
• Make sure each resident has the right to have a choice over activities, their schedules and health care according to his or her interests, assessment, and plan of care
  • Harm: 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: Some
• Posted No-smoking signs in areas where smoking is not permitted or did not provide ashtrays where smoking was allowed
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Employ qualified full-time, part-time or consultant professionals that must be licensed, certified, or registered staff to give needed services
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Honor all of the resident's rights as a resident of the nursing home, free of coercion and reprisal, and as a citizen or resident of the United States
  • 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: Potential for minimal harm
  • Scope: Many
• Try to resolve each resident's complaints quickly
  • 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: Some
• Develop policies that prevent mistreatment, neglect, or abuse of residents or theft of resident property
  • 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: Some
• Make sure that doctors visit residents regularly, as required
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Few
• Approved construction type or materials
  • Harm: Potential for minimal harm
  • Scope: Some
• Walls or barriers that prevent smoke from passing through and would resist fire for at least one hour
  • Harm: Potential for minimal harm
  • Scope: Many
• Construction that can resist fire for one hour or an approved fire extinguishing system
  • Harm: Potential for minimal harm
  • Scope: Some
• Record of quarterly fire drills for each shift under varying conditions
  • Harm: Potential for minimal harm
  • Scope: Many
• An approved automatic sprinkler system connected to the fire alarm system
  • Harm: Potential for minimal harm
  • Scope: Some
• Automatic sprinkler systems that have been maintained in working order
  • Harm: Potential for minimal harm
  • Scope: Some
• Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Some
• Provide housekeeping and maintenance services
  • Harm: Potential for minimal harm
  • Scope: Some
• Dispose of garbage and refuse properly
  • Harm: Potential for minimal harm
  • Scope: Many
• Make sure that doctors see a resident's plan of care at every visit and make notes about progress and orders in writing
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Some
• Make sure that a working call system is available in each resident's room or bathroom and bathing area
  • Harm: Potential for minimal harm
  • Scope: Some
• Put firmly secured handrails on each side of hallways
  • Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
  • Scope: Some