VALLEY CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL - BAKERSFIELD, CA

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Staff Information

Quality Measures

Complaint Deficiency

Proper medical gas storage and administration areas: Some (Potential for minimal 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 (Potential for minimal harm)

Proper medical gas storage and administration areas: Some (Potential for minimal harm)

Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public: Some (Potential for minimal 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 (Potential for minimal harm)

A two-hour-resistant firewall in common walls: Some (Potential for minimal harm)

Provide necessary care and services to maintain the highest well being of each resident : Some (Potential for minimal harm)

Restrictions on the use of flammable curtains: Some (Potential for minimal harm)

Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment: Some (Potential for minimal harm)

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

Provide activities to meet the interests and needs of each resident: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

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

Provide housekeeping and maintenance services: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Conduct initial and periodic assessments of each resident's functional capacity: Some (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)

Develop a complete care plan that meets all of a resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured: Few (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)

Develop policies and procedures for influenza and pneumococcal immunizations: 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: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms: Some (Potential for minimal harm)

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

Smoke barrier doors that can resist smoke for at least 20 minutes: Few (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)

Tell the resident completely about his or her health status, care and treatments: Many (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Keep each resident free from physical restraints, unless needed for medical treatment: Few (Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety)

Keep each resident free from drugs that restrain them, unless needed for medical treatment: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident: Few (Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety)

Give notice to the resident before a room or roommate change: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Provide activities to meet the interests and needs of each resident: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

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

Provide housekeeping and maintenance services: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Develop a complete care plan that meets all of a resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured: 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: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Provide necessary care and services to maintain the highest well being of each resident : Few (Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety)

Make sure that each residents' abilities in activities of daily living do not decline, unless unavoidable: 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)

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

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

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

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

Corridor and hallway doors that block smoke: Few (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)

An approved installation, maintenance and testing program for fire alarm systems: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment: Many (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)

Provide housekeeping and maintenance services: 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)

Make sure that each resident gets a nutritional and well balanced diet, unless it is not possible to do so: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Develop policies and procedures for influenza and pneumococcal immunizations: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

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

Make sure that a doctor approves a resident's admission in writing and that each resident remains under the care of a doctor: 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: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms: Some (Potential for minimal harm)

Make sure there is a pest control program to prevent/deal with mice, insects, or other pests: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

An approved installation, maintenance and testing program for fire alarm systems: Few (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)

Heating and ventilation systems that have been properly installed according to the manufacturer's instructions: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Other nearby hospitals and nursing homes

• ADVENTIST HEALTH HOME CARE SERVICES - BAKERSFIELD (1.42 miles)
• AMERICAN HEALTH ASSOCIATES INC (1.32 miles)
• MERCY HOSPITAL (0.90 miles)
• MERCY HOSPITAL DP SNF (0.90 miles)
• MERCY-MEMORIAL HOME HEALTH (0.80 miles)
• SAN JOAQUIN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL (1.30 miles)
• VILLA TERRACE NURSING HOME (0.32 miles)