EAGLE PASS NURSING AND REHABILITATION

Ensure that staff members are educated on resident rights and facility responsibilities to properly care for its residents.

Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms.

Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.

Post nurse staffing information every day.

Provide training in compliance and ethics.

Conduct mandatory training, for all staff, on the facility’s Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement Program.

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

Electronically submit to CMS complete and accurate direct care staffing information, based on payroll and other verifiable and auditable data.

Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.

Dispose of garbage and refuse properly.

Ensure that nurse aides who have worked more than 4 months, are trained and competent; and nurse aides who have worked less than 4 months are enrolled in appropriate training.

Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.

Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.

Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.

Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.

Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.

Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft.

Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public.

Establish a governing body that is legally responsible for establishing and implementing policies for managing and operating the facility and appoints a properly licensed administrator responsible for managing the facility.

Post nurse staffing information every day.

Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being.

Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.

Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.

Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.