WESLEY ACRES - DES MOINES, IA

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Staff Information

Quality Measures

Complaint Deficiency

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

Did not have a written emergency evacuation plan: 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)

Protected exits that allow the resident to escape the building: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

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

Post nurse staffing information/data on a daily basis: 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: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Properly hold, secure and manage each resident's personal money which is deposited with the nursing home: Some (Potential for minimal harm)

Exits that are accessible at all times: Few (Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety)

Give each resident a notice of rights, rules, services and charges. Tell each resident who can get Medicaid benefits about 1) which items and services Medicaid covers and which the resident must pay for: 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)

Make sure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way: 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)

Operate and provide services according to Federal, State, and local laws and professional standards: Some (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: Few (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: Some (Potential for minimal harm)

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

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

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

An approved automatic sprinkler system connected to the fire alarm system: Many (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)

A two-hour-resistant firewall in common walls: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

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

Record of quarterly fire drills for each shift under varying conditions: Many (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)

Give each resident a notice of rights, rules, services and charges. Tell each resident who can get Medicaid benefits about 1) which items and services Medicaid covers and which the resident must pay for: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Keep each resident's personal and medical records private and confidential: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

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

Give residents proper treatment to prevent new bed (pressure) sores or heal existing bed sores: Few (Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety)

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)

Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading: Few (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: 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)

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)

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)

Keep the rate of medication errors (wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong time) to less than 5%: Some (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)

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: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Employ qualified full-time, part-time or consultant professionals that must be licensed, certified, or registered staff to give needed services: 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)

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

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

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

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

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

Other nearby hospitals and nursing homes

• IOWA JEWISH SENIOR LIFE CENTER (1.09 miles)
• MERCY TERRACE HILL SURGERY CENTER (1.13 miles)
• LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA, INC (1.13 miles)
• SCOTTISH RITE PARK INC (0.47 miles)
• SHERMAN HILLS HEALTH CARE CENTER (1.38 miles)
• WESLEY COMMUNITY HOSPICE (1.39 miles)
• WESLEYLIFE HOME HEALTH (1.39 miles)