PIONEER HOUSE - SACRAMENTO, CA

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Staff Information

Quality Measures

Complaint Deficiency

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)

Keep each resident free from physical restraints, unless needed for medical treatment: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

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

Provide medically-related social services to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Post nurse staffing information/data on a daily basis: Many (Potential for minimal harm)

Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Provide routine and 24-hour emergency dental care for each resident: Few (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)

Be designed, built, equipped, or well kept to protect the health and safety of residents, workers, and the public: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Train all employees on what to do in an emergency, and carry out announced staff drills: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Approved construction type or materials: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Record of quarterly fire drills for each shift under varying conditions: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

A fire alarm system that can be heard throughout the facility: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

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

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

Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Properly hold, secure and manage each resident's personal money which is deposited with the nursing home: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

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

Listen to the resident or family groups or act on their complaints or suggestions: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Make sure each resident receives an accurate assessment by a qualified health professional: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Maintain 15 months of resident assessments in the resident's active clinical record: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way: Some (Potential for minimal harm)

Make sure that all needed doctor visits are made personally by a doctor, as required. After initial doctor visit, care may be alternated by a physician assistant (PA) or nurse practitioner (NP): Few (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)

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

Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public: Many (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Put firmly secured handrails on each side of hallways: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Ensure that all nurse aids who have worked less than 4 months are enrolled in appropriate training or have been deemed competent to provide nursing and nursing related services: Many (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

1) Receive registry verification that a nurse aide has met the required training and skills that the State requires; and 2) ensure nurse aides receive the required retraining after 24 months if nursing related services were not provided for monetary compensation: Many (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Employ or obtain outside professional resources providing services in the nursing home that meet professional standards: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Have a detailed, written plan for disasters and emergencies, such as fire, severe weather, and missing residents: Many (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies quarterly, and develop corrective plans of action: Many (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Approved construction type or materials: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Corridor and hallway doors that block smoke: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

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

Emergency lighting that can last at least 1 1/2 hours: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Properly located and lighted Exit signs: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Did not have a written emergency evacuation plan: Many (Potential for minimal harm)

A fire alarm system that can be heard throughout the facility: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

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

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

Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Corridors that are separated from common areas by walls constructed to limit the passage of smoke: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Walls or barriers that prevent smoke from passing through and would resist fire for at least one hour: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Properly working alarms on sprinkler valves: Many (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

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

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

An approved back-up procedure for a faulty fire alarm system: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Give proper treatment to residents with feeding tubes to prevent problems (such as aspiration pneumonia, diarrhea, vomiting, dehydration, metabolic abnormalities, nasal-pharyngeal ulcers) and help restore eating skills, if possible: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Provide a tasty and well-balanced diet that meets the nutritional needs of each resident: Some (Potential for minimal harm)

Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way: Some (Potential for minimal harm)

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• SUTTER GENERAL HOSPITAL (1.86 miles)
• SUTTER OAKS NURSING CENTER-MIDTOWN D/P SNF (1.71 miles)
• TRINITY HOUSE (1.77 miles)