Deficiency Records for Cerritos Vista Healthcare Center
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Deficiency Records for Cerritos Vista Healthcare Center
A list of the most recent deficiencies for Cerritos Vista Healthcare Center. The list is based on the information provided by CMS from both standard inspections and from complaints filed by residents.
A list of the most recent deficiencies for Cerritos Vista Healthcare Center. The list is based on the information provided by CMS from both standard inspections and from complaints filed by residents.
| Deficiency | Type of Deficiency | Deficiency Date | Date Corrected | Resulted from a Complaint? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Develop Emergency Preparedness policies and procedures. | Fire Safety | 2024-03-04 | 2024-03-15 | N |
| Implement emergency and standby power systems. | Fire Safety | 2024-03-04 | 2024-03-15 | N |
| Keep aisles, corridors, and exits free of obstruction in case of emergency. | Fire Safety | 2024-03-04 | 2024-03-15 | N |
| Construct fire resistant interior walls. | Fire Safety | 2024-03-04 | 2024-03-15 | N |
| Properly provide smoke detection systems in areas open to corridors. | Fire Safety | 2024-03-04 | 2024-03-15 | N |
| Install an approved automatic sprinkler system. | Fire Safety | 2024-03-04 | 2024-03-15 | N |
| Install corridor and hallway doors that block smoke. | Fire Safety | 2024-03-04 | 2024-03-15 | N |
| Ensure proper usage of power strips and extension cords. | Fire Safety | 2024-03-04 | 2024-03-15 | N |
| Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments. | Health | 2024-03-01 | 2024-03-11 | N |
| Honor the resident's right to be treated with respect and dignity and to retain and use personal possessions. | Health | 2024-03-01 | 2024-03-11 | 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 | 2024-03-01 | 2024-03-11 | N |
| Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. | Health | 2024-03-01 | 2024-03-11 | N |
| Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed. | Health | 2024-03-01 | 2024-03-11 | N |
| Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted | Health | 2024-03-01 | 2024-03-11 | 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 | 2024-03-01 | 2024-03-11 | N |
| Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health. | Health | 2024-03-01 | 2024-03-11 | 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 | 2024-03-01 | 2024-03-11 | N |
| Post nurse staffing information every day. | Health | 2024-03-01 | 2024-03-11 | N |
| Provide sufficient support personnel to safely and effectively carry out the functions of the food and nutrition service. | Health | 2024-03-01 | 2024-03-11 | 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 | 2024-03-01 | 2024-03-11 | N |
| Ensure each resident receives and the facility provides food that accommodates resident allergies, intolerances, and preferences, as well as appealing options. | Health | 2024-03-01 | 2024-03-11 | N |
| Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. | Health | 2024-03-01 | 2024-03-11 | N |
| Dispose of garbage and refuse properly. | Health | 2024-03-01 | 2024-03-11 | N |
| Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies and develop corrective plans of action. | Health | 2024-03-01 | 2024-03-11 | N |
| Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Health | 2024-03-01 | 2024-03-11 | N |
| Implement a program that monitors antibiotic use. | Health | 2024-03-01 | 2024-03-11 | N |
| Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing. | Health | 2023-11-08 | 2023-12-05 | Y |
| 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 | 2023-11-08 | 2023-12-05 | Y |
| Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Health | 2023-11-08 | 2023-12-05 | Y |
| Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Health | 2023-07-12 | 2023-07-22 | Y |
| Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Health | 2023-06-16 | 2023-06-26 | Y |
| Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Health | 2023-06-16 | 2023-06-26 | Y |
| Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Health | 2023-06-01 | 2023-06-11 | Y |
| Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Health | 2023-06-01 | 2023-06-11 | Y |
| Honor the resident's right to be treated with respect and dignity and to retain and use personal possessions. | Health | 2023-04-19 | 2023-04-29 | Y |
| Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Health | 2023-02-10 | 2023-03-12 | Y |
| Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Health | 2023-01-26 | 2023-02-21 | Y |
| Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Health | 2023-01-30 | 2023-02-12 | Y |
| Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. | Health | 2022-09-22 | 2022-10-02 | Y |
| Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies and develop corrective plans of action. | Health | 2022-09-22 | 2022-10-02 | Y |
| Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Health | 2022-08-09 | 2022-09-06 | Y |
| Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. | Health | 2022-01-31 | 2022-03-07 | N |
| Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely. | Health | 2022-01-31 | 2022-03-07 | N |
| Ensure that each resident is free from the use of physical restraints, unless needed for medical treatment. | Health | 2022-01-31 | 2022-03-07 | N |
| Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed. | Health | 2022-01-31 | 2022-03-07 | N |
| Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Health | 2022-01-31 | 2022-03-07 | N |
| Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable. | Health | 2022-01-31 | 2022-03-07 | N |
| Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. | Health | 2022-01-31 | 2022-03-07 | N |
| Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing. | Health | 2022-01-31 | 2022-03-07 | 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 | 2022-01-31 | 2022-03-07 | N |
| Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health. | Health | 2022-01-31 | 2022-03-07 | N |
| Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube. | Health | 2022-01-31 | 2022-03-07 | N |
| Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed. | Health | 2022-01-31 | 2022-03-07 | N |
| Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures. | Health | 2022-01-31 | 2022-03-07 | N |
| Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited. | Health | 2022-01-31 | 2022-03-07 | N |
| Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors. | Health | 2022-01-31 | 2022-03-07 | N |
| Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Health | 2022-01-31 | 2022-03-07 | N |
| Keep all essential equipment working safely. | Health | 2022-01-31 | 2022-03-07 | N |
| Provide emergency officials' contact information. | Fire Safety | 2022-01-27 | 2022-02-14 | N |
| Install an approved automatic sprinkler system. | Fire Safety | 2022-01-27 | 2022-02-14 | N |
| Ensure that corridors are separated from use areas by walls constructed to limit the passage of smoke. | Fire Safety | 2022-01-27 | 2022-02-14 | N |
| Have properly installed electrical wiring and gas equipment. | Fire Safety | 2022-01-27 | 2022-02-14 | N |
| Have posted "No-smoking" signs in areas where smoking is not permitted or ashtrays provided where smoking was allowed. | Fire Safety | 2022-01-27 | 2022-02-14 | N |
| Have power receptacles that are properly grounded. | Fire Safety | 2022-01-27 | 2022-02-14 | N |
| Ensure proper usage of power strips and extension cords. | Fire Safety | 2022-01-27 | 2022-02-14 | N |
| Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services. | Health | 2021-08-19 | 2021-08-27 | Y |
| Ensure that each resident is free from the use of physical restraints, unless needed for medical treatment. | Health | 2019-08-02 | 2019-09-18 | N |
| Ensure that each resident is free from medications that restrain them, unless needed for medical treatment. | Health | 2019-08-02 | 2019-09-18 | N |
| Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Health | 2019-08-02 | 2019-09-18 | N |
| Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable. | Health | 2019-08-02 | 2019-09-18 | 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 | 2019-08-02 | 2019-09-18 | N |
| Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed. | Health | 2019-08-02 | 2019-09-18 | 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 | 2019-08-02 | 2019-09-18 | N |
| Post nurse staffing information every day. | Health | 2019-08-02 | 2019-09-18 | N |
| Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. | Health | 2019-08-02 | 2019-09-18 | N |
| Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited. | Health | 2019-08-02 | 2019-09-18 | 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 | 2019-08-02 | 2019-09-18 | N |
| Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. | Health | 2019-08-02 | 2019-09-18 | N |
| Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Health | 2019-08-02 | 2019-09-18 | N |
| Implement a program that monitors antibiotic use. | Health | 2019-08-02 | 2019-09-18 | N |
| Have a complete alarm system manually initiated and initiated by fire sprinkler system connection. | Fire Safety | 2019-08-02 | 2019-08-27 | N |
| Inspect, test, and maintain automatic sprinkler systems. | Fire Safety | 2019-08-02 | 2019-08-27 | N |
| Have simulated fire drills held at unexpected times. | Fire Safety | 2019-08-02 | 2019-08-27 | N |
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