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Deficiency Records for Torrance Care Center West, Inc
View the most recent health deficiencies and inspection results for Torrance Care Center West, Inc. Stay informed about quality of care issues.
View the most recent health deficiencies and inspection results for Torrance Care Center West, Inc. Stay informed about quality of care issues.
| Deficiency | Type of Deficiency | Deficiency Date | Date Corrected | Resulted from a Complaint? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. | Health | 2026-02-11 | 2026-03-05 | Y |
| Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Health | 2026-02-11 | 2026-03-05 | Y |
| Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. | Health | 2026-02-11 | 2026-03-05 | Y |
| Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Health | 2025-12-15 | 2026-01-10 | Y |
| 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. | Health | 2025-12-15 | 2026-01-09 | Y |
| Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Health | 2025-09-15 | 2025-09-28 | Y |
| Honor the resident's right to voice grievances without discrimination or reprisal and the facility must establish a grievance policy and make prompt efforts to resolve grievances. | Health | 2025-09-15 | 2025-09-28 | Y |
| Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed. | Health | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| Give residents notice of Medicaid/Medicare coverage and potential liability for services not covered. | Health | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| Provide the required documentation or notification related to the resident's needs, appeal rights, or bed-hold policies. | Health | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Health | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Health | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable. | Health | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| Assist a resident in gaining access to vision and hearing services. | Health | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| Inspect, test, and maintain automatic sprinkler systems. | Fire Safety | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| 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. | Health | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| Ensure that the facility has sufficient staff members who possess the competencies and skills to meet the behavioral health needs of residents. | Health | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| Provide the appropriate treatment and services to a resident who displays or is diagnosed with mental disorder or psychosocial adjustment difficulty, or who has a history of trauma and/or post-traumatic stress disorder. | Health | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| Provide medically-related social services to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life. | Health | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. | Health | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| 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. | Health | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. | Health | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. | Health | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| Inform resident or representatives choice to enter into binding arbitration agreement and right to refuse. | Health | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies and develop corrective plans of action. | Health | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Health | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms. | Health | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| Ensure residents have reasonable access to and privacy in their use of communication methods. | Health | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| 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. | Health | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| Ensure that special areas are constructed so that walls can resist fire for one hour or have an approved fire extinguishing system. | Fire Safety | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| Have properly installed electrical wiring and gas equipment. | Fire Safety | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| To conduct inspection, testing and maintenance of fire doors by qualified individuals. | Fire Safety | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident. | Health | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments. | Health | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. | Health | 2025-08-14 | 2025-09-05 | N |
| Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. | Health | 2025-07-15 | 2025-07-31 | Y |
| Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors. | Health | 2024-12-18 | 2025-01-05 | Y |
| 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. | Health | 2024-12-18 | 2025-01-05 | Y |
| Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Health | 2024-09-09 | 2024-10-02 | Y |
| Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Health | 2024-07-26 | 2024-09-26 | N |
| Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections. | Health | 2024-07-26 | 2024-09-26 | N |
| Give residents notice of Medicaid/Medicare coverage and potential liability for services not covered. | Health | 2024-07-26 | 2024-09-26 | N |
| Honor the resident's right to voice grievances without discrimination or reprisal and the facility must establish a grievance policy and make prompt efforts to resolve grievances. | Health | 2024-08-27 | 2024-09-18 | Y |
| Ensure that special areas are constructed so that walls can resist fire for one hour or have an approved fire extinguishing system. | Fire Safety | 2024-07-26 | 2024-08-25 | N |
| Inspect, test, and maintain automatic sprinkler systems. | Fire Safety | 2024-07-26 | 2024-08-25 | N |
| To conduct inspection, testing and maintenance of fire doors by qualified individuals. | Fire Safety | 2024-07-26 | 2024-08-25 | N |
| Have generator or other power source capable of supplying service within 10 seconds. | Fire Safety | 2024-07-26 | 2024-08-25 | N |
| Ensure proper usage of power strips and extension cords. | Fire Safety | 2024-07-26 | 2024-08-25 | N |
| Have proper medical gas storage and administration areas. | Fire Safety | 2024-07-26 | 2024-08-25 | N |
| Install an approved automatic sprinkler system. | Fire Safety | 2024-07-26 | 2024-08-25 | N |
| Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms. | Health | 2024-07-26 | 2024-08-18 | N |
| Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals. | Health | 2024-07-26 | 2024-08-18 | N |
| Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Health | 2024-07-26 | 2024-08-18 | N |
| Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Health | 2024-07-26 | 2024-08-18 | N |
| 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. | Health | 2024-07-26 | 2024-08-18 | N |
| Have a plan that describes the process for conducting QAPI and QAA activities. | Health | 2024-07-26 | 2024-08-18 | N |
| 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. | Health | 2024-07-26 | 2024-08-18 | N |
| Provide medically-related social services to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life. | Health | 2024-07-26 | 2024-08-18 | N |
| Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. | Health | 2024-07-26 | 2024-08-18 | N |
| 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. | Health | 2024-07-26 | 2024-08-18 | N |
| Provide routine and 24-hour emergency dental care for each resident. | Health | 2024-07-26 | 2024-08-18 | N |
| Hire a qualified full-time social worker in a facility with more than 120 beds. | Health | 2024-07-26 | 2024-08-18 | N |
| Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. | Health | 2024-07-26 | 2024-08-18 | N |
| PASARR screening for Mental disorders or Intellectual Disabilities | Health | 2024-07-26 | 2024-08-18 | N |
| Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Health | 2024-08-05 | 2024-08-18 | Y |
| Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. | Health | 2024-07-26 | 2024-08-18 | N |
| 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. | Health | 2024-07-26 | 2024-08-18 | N |
| Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights. | Health | 2024-07-26 | 2024-08-18 | N |
| Encode each resident?s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment. | Health | 2024-07-26 | 2024-08-18 | N |
| Respond appropriately to all alleged violations. | Health | 2024-06-28 | 2024-07-25 | Y |
| Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. | Health | 2024-06-28 | 2024-07-25 | Y |
| Keep all essential equipment working safely. | Health | 2021-11-20 | 2021-12-20 | N |
| Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Health | 2021-11-20 | 2021-12-20 | N |
| Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies and develop corrective plans of action. | Health | 2021-11-20 | 2021-12-20 | N |
| 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. | Health | 2021-11-20 | 2021-12-20 | N |
| 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. | Health | 2021-11-20 | 2021-12-20 | N |
| Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. | Health | 2021-11-20 | 2021-12-20 | N |
| Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services. | Health | 2021-11-20 | 2021-12-20 | N |
| Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. | Health | 2021-11-20 | 2021-12-20 | N |
| Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Health | 2021-11-20 | 2021-12-20 | N |
| Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. | Health | 2021-11-20 | 2021-12-20 | N |
| Encode each resident?s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment. | Health | 2021-11-20 | 2021-12-20 | N |
| Assess the resident when there is a significant change in condition | Health | 2021-11-20 | 2021-12-20 | N |
| Properly select, install, inspect, or maintain portable fire extinguishes. | Fire Safety | 2021-11-20 | 2021-12-16 | N |
| Inspect, test, and maintain automatic sprinkler systems. | Fire Safety | 2021-11-20 | 2021-12-16 | N |
| Have a complete alarm system manually initiated and initiated by fire sprinkler system connection. | Fire Safety | 2021-11-20 | 2021-12-16 | N |
| Have stairways and smokeproof enclosures used as exits that meet safety requirements. | Fire Safety | 2021-11-20 | 2021-12-16 | N |