Potosi Manor

Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.

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

Observe each nurse aide's job performance and give regular training.

Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.

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

Ensure nurse aides have the skills they need to care for residents, and give nurse aides education in dementia care and abuse prevention.

Post nurse staffing information every day.

Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.

Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies and develop corrective plans of action.

Have the Quality Assessment and Assurance group have the required members and meet at least quarterly

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.

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

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

Dispose of garbage and refuse properly.

Have a plan that describes the process for conducting QAPI and QAA activities.

Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.

Give residents notice of Medicaid/Medicare coverage and potential liability for services not covered.

Assess the resident completely in a timely manner when first admitted, and then periodically, at least every 12 months.

Assure that each resident’s assessment is updated at least once every 3 months.

Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.

Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.

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

The resident has the right to receive notices in a format and a language he or she understands.

Post nurse staffing information every day.

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