ALTON REHAB AND NURSING CENTER - ALTON, IL

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Staff Information

Quality Measures

Complaint Deficiency

Portable fire extinguishers: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment: Few (Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety)

Hire sufficient dietary support personnel: Few (Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety)

Exits that are accessible at all times: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

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: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Construction that can resist fire for one hour or an approved fire extinguishing system: Some (Potential for minimal harm)

Exits that are free from obstructions and can be used at all times: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Approved construction type or materials: Few (Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety)

Follow policies and procedures to convey the resident's personal funds to the appropriate party responsible after the resident's death: Few (Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety)

Hire sufficient dietary support personnel: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Provide doctors orders for the resident's immediate care, at the time the resident was admitted: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

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: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Follow policies and procedures to convey the resident's personal funds to the appropriate party responsible after the resident's death: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Proper backup exit lighting: Some (Actual harm)

Exits that are accessible at all times: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Provide a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Allow the resident the right to participate in the planning or revision of the resident's care plan: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Provide necessary care and services to maintain the highest well being of each resident : Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

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: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Proper stairway enclosures and vertical shafts: Many (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Construction that can resist fire for one hour or an approved fire extinguishing system: Many (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

An automatic smoke detection system in all hallways: Many (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Proper medical gas storage and administration areas: Many (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Weekly inspections and monthly testing of generators: Many (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

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: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Develop policies that prevent mistreatment, neglect, or abuse of residents or theft of resident property: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Allow the resident the right to participate in the planning or revision of the resident's care plan: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Give residents proper treatment to prevent new bed (pressure) sores or heal existing bed sores: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Make sure that the nursing home area is free from accident hazards and risks and provides supervision to prevent avoidable accidents: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Maintain drug records and properly mark/label drugs and other similar products according to accepted professional standards: Many (Potential for minimal harm)

Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Automatic sprinkler systems that have been maintained in working order: Many (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Weekly inspections and monthly testing of generators: Many (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Write and use policies that forbid mistreatment, neglect and abuse of residents and theft of residents' property: Few (Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety)

Provide necessary care and services to maintain the highest well being of each resident : Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Assist those residents who need total help with eating/drinking, grooming and personal and oral hygiene: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Give residents proper treatment to prevent new bed (pressure) sores or heal existing bed sores: Some (Actual harm)

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: Few (Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety)

Make sure that residents with reduced range of motion get proper treatment and services to increase range of motion: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Make sure that the nursing home area is free from accident hazards and risks and provides supervision to prevent avoidable accidents: Few (Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety)

Make sure that each resident gets a nutritional and well balanced diet, unless it is not possible to do so: Few (Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety)

Give each resident enough fluids to keep them healthy and prevent dehydration: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Properly care for residents needing special services, including: injections, colostomy, ureostomy, ileostomy, tracheostomy care, tracheal suctioning, respiratory care, foot care, and prostheses: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

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: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Offer other nutritional food to each resident who will not eat the food served: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Keep all essential equipment working safely: Some (Potential for minimal harm)

Make sure that a working call system is available in each resident's room or bathroom and bathing area: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

1) Review the work of each nurse aide every year; and 2) give regular in-service training based upon these reviews: Many (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Keep clinical record information safe, so that it will not be lost, destroyed or used by the wrong person: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Other nearby hospitals and nursing homes

• ABERDEEN TERRACE (0.45 miles)
• ALTON BLUFFS ESTATE (1.52 miles)
• ALTON MENTAL HEALTH CENTER (1.55 miles)
• DAVITA - ALTON DIALYSIS (1.55 miles)
• EUNICE C SMITH NURSING HOME (1.85 miles)
• WOOD RIVER HOSPICE (WOOD RIVER, 1.98 miles)