Pioneer Care and Rehabilitation

Provide the appropriate treatment and services to a resident who displays or is diagnosed with dementia.

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

Ensure the transfer/discharge meets the resident's needs/preferences and that the resident is prepared for a safe transfer/discharge.

Provide the required documentation or notification related to the resident's needs, appeal rights, or bed-hold policies.

Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted

Ensure residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason.

Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.

Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.

Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.

Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.

Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

Give their staff education on dementia care, and what abuse, neglect, and exploitation are; and how to report abuse, neglect, and exploitation.

Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive.

Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.

Implement a program that monitors antibiotic use.

Designate a physician to serve as medical director responsible for implementation of resident care policies and coordination of medical care in the facility.

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

Designate a qualified infection preventionist to be responsible for the infection prevent and control program in the nursing home.

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

Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.

Administer the facility in a manner that enables it to use its resources effectively and efficiently.

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.

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

Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.

Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.

Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.

Ensure each resident must receive and the facility must provide necessary behavioral health care and services.

Provide medically-related social services to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life.

Provide or get specialized rehabilitative services as required for a resident.

Develop and implement policies and procedures for flu and pneumonia vaccinations.

Educate residents and staff on COVID-19 vaccination, offer the COVID-19 vaccine to eligible residents and staff after education, and properly document each resident and staff member's vaccination status.

Ensure menus must meet the nutritional needs of residents, be prepared in advance, be followed, be updated, be reviewed by dietician, and meet the needs of the resident.

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

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

Not transfer or discharge a resident without an adequate reason; and must provide documentation and convey specific information when a resident is transferred or discharged.

Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights.

Permit a resident to return to the nursing home after hospitalization or therapeutic leave that exceeds bed-hold policy.

Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money.

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

Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.

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.

Post a list of names, addresses, and telephone numbers of all pertinent State agencies and advocacy groups and a statement that the resident may file a complaint with the State Survey Agency.

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

Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.

Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.

Try different approaches before using a bed rail. If a bed rail is needed, the facility must (1) assess a resident for safety risk; (2) review these risks and benefits with the resident/representative; (3) get informed consent; and (4) Correctly install and maintain the bed rail.

Have a registered nurse on duty 8 hours a day; and select a registered nurse to be the director of nurses on a full time basis.

Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift.

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

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.