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Deficiency Records for Brandon Woods of New Bedford
View the most recent health deficiencies and inspection results for Brandon Woods of New Bedford. Stay informed about quality of care issues.
View the most recent health deficiencies and inspection results for Brandon Woods of New Bedford. Stay informed about quality of care issues.
| Deficiency | Type of Deficiency | Deficiency Date | Date Corrected | Resulted from a Complaint? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft. | Health | 2025-09-16 | 2025-12-02 | Y |
| Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft. | Health | 2025-06-12 | 2025-05-23 | Y |
| Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-02-18 | N |
| Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-02-18 | N |
| Conduct and document a facility-wide assessment to determine what resources are necessary to care for residents competently during both day-to-day operations (including nights and weekends) and emergencies. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-02-07 | N |
| Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-02-07 | N |
| Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-02-07 | N |
| Ensure each resident must receive and the facility must provide necessary behavioral health care and services. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-02-07 | N |
| Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-02-07 | N |
| Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-02-07 | N |
| Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-02-07 | N |
| Protect each resident from separation (from other residents, his/her room, or confinement to his/her room). | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-02-07 | N |
| Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-02-07 | N |
| Implement a program that monitors antibiotic use. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-02-07 | N |
| Ensure nurse aides have the skills they need to care for residents, and give nurse aides education in dementia care and abuse prevention. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-02-07 | N |
| Conduct mandatory training, for all staff, on the facility?s Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement Program. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-02-07 | N |
| Respond appropriately to all alleged violations. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-02-07 | N |
| Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-10 | N |
| Administer the facility in a manner that enables it to use its resources effectively and efficiently. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-10 | N |
| Develop, implement, and/or maintain an effective training program that includes effective communications for direct care staff members. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-10 | N |
| Ensure that staff members are educated on resident rights and facility responsibilities to properly care for its residents. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-10 | N |
| Give their staff education on dementia care, and what abuse, neglect, and exploitation are; and how to report abuse, neglect, and exploitation. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-10 | N |
| Include as part of its infection prevention and control program, mandatory training that includes written standards, policies, and procedures for the program. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-10 | N |
| Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-09 | 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 | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-09 | N |
| Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-06 | N |
| Ensure necessary information is communicated to the resident, and receiving health care provider at the time of a planned discharge. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-06 | N |
| Give the resident's representative the ability to exercise the resident's rights. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-06 | N |
| Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-06 | N |
| Provide behavior health training consistent with the requirements and as determined by a facility assessment. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-06 | N |
| Provide training in compliance and ethics. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-06 | N |
| Have a plan that describes the process for conducting QAPI and QAA activities. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-06 | N |
| Have a registered nurse on duty 8 hours a day; and select a registered nurse to be the director of nurses on a full time basis. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-06 | N |
| Post nurse staffing information every day. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-06 | N |
| Ensure that the facility has sufficient staff members who possess the competencies and skills to meet the behavioral health needs of residents. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-06 | N |
| Provide a neutral and fair arbitration process and agree to arbitrator and venue. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-06 | N |
| Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-06 | N |
| Inform resident or representatives choice to enter into binding arbitration agreement and right to refuse. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-06 | 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 | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-06 | 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 | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-03 | N |
| Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-03 | N |
| Give residents notice of Medicaid/Medicare coverage and potential liability for services not covered. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-03 | N |
| Provide the appropriate treatment and services to a resident who displays or is diagnosed with dementia. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-03 | N |
| Ensure that the resident and his/her doctor meet face-to-face at all required visits. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-03 | N |
| Ensure the resident's doctor reviews the resident's care, writes, signs and dates progress notes and orders, at each required visit. | Health | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-03 | 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 | 2024-12-16 | 2025-01-03 | N |
| Develop Emergency Preparedness policies and procedures. | Fire Safety | 2024-12-16 | 2024-12-13 | N |
| Have generator or other power source capable of supplying service within 10 seconds. | Fire Safety | 2024-12-16 | 2024-12-13 | N |
| Develop and maintain an Emergency Preparedness Program (EP). | Fire Safety | 2024-12-16 | 2024-12-13 | N |
| To conduct inspection, testing and maintenance of fire doors by qualified individuals. | Fire Safety | 2024-12-16 | 2024-12-13 | N |
| Develop a communication plan. | Fire Safety | 2024-12-16 | 2024-12-13 | N |
| Establish emergency prep training and testing. | Fire Safety | 2024-12-16 | 2024-12-13 | N |
| Inspect, test, and maintain automatic sprinkler systems. | Fire Safety | 2024-12-16 | 2024-12-13 | 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 | 2024-12-16 | 2024-12-13 | N |
| Provide properly protected cooking facilities. | Fire Safety | 2024-12-16 | 2024-12-13 | N |
| Install an approved automatic sprinkler system. | Fire Safety | 2024-12-16 | 2024-12-13 | N |
| Install emergency lighting that can last at least 1 1/2 hours. | Fire Safety | 2023-08-30 | 2023-10-19 | N |
| Install an approved automatic sprinkler system. | Fire Safety | 2023-08-30 | 2023-10-19 | N |
| Install smoke barrier doors that can resist smoke for at least 20 minutes. | Fire Safety | 2023-08-30 | 2023-10-19 | N |
| Have properly installed electrical wiring and gas equipment. | Fire Safety | 2023-08-30 | 2023-10-19 | N |
| Have generator or other power source capable of supplying service within 10 seconds. | Fire Safety | 2023-08-30 | 2023-09-28 | N |
| Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Health | 2023-08-30 | 2023-09-28 | 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 | 2023-08-30 | 2023-09-28 | N |
| Ensure food and drink is palatable, attractive, and at a safe and appetizing temperature. | Health | 2023-08-30 | 2023-09-28 | N |
| Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Health | 2023-08-30 | 2023-09-28 | N |
| Implement emergency and standby power systems. | Fire Safety | 2023-08-30 | 2023-09-28 | N |
| Allow residents to easily view the nursing home's survey results and communicate with advocate agencies. | Health | 2023-08-30 | 2023-09-22 | 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 | 2023-08-30 | 2023-09-22 | N |
| Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights. | Health | 2023-08-30 | 2023-09-22 | N |
| Notify the resident or the resident?s representative in writing how long the nursing home will hold the resident?s bed in cases of transfer to a hospital or therapeutic leave. | Health | 2023-08-30 | 2023-09-22 | N |
| Encode each resident?s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment. | Health | 2023-08-30 | 2023-09-22 | N |
| Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. | Health | 2023-08-30 | 2023-09-22 | N |
| Ensure necessary information is communicated to the resident, and receiving health care provider at the time of a planned discharge. | Health | 2023-08-30 | 2023-09-22 | N |
| Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed. | Health | 2023-08-30 | 2023-09-22 | 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 | 2023-08-30 | 2023-09-22 | N |
| Report COVID19 data to residents and families. | Health | 2023-08-30 | 2023-09-22 | N |
| Keep aisles, corridors, and exits free of obstruction in case of emergency. | Fire Safety | 2023-08-30 | 2023-09-19 | N |
| Install corridor and hallway doors that block smoke. | Fire Safety | 2023-08-30 | 2023-09-19 | N |
| Provide a written emergency evacuation plan. | Fire Safety | 2023-08-30 | 2023-09-19 | N |
| Have simulated fire drills held at unexpected times. | Fire Safety | 2023-08-30 | 2023-09-19 | N |
| Meet requirements for the installation and maintenance of electrical systems. | Fire Safety | 2023-08-30 | 2023-09-19 | N |
| Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. | Health | 2021-04-02 | 2021-07-05 | N |
| Perform COVID19 testing on residents and staff. | Health | 2021-04-02 | 2021-07-05 | 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 | 2021-04-02 | 2021-07-05 | N |
| Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Health | 2021-04-02 | 2021-07-05 | N |
| Report COVID19 data to residents and families. | Health | 2021-04-02 | 2021-07-05 | N |
| Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Health | 2021-04-02 | 2021-06-06 | 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 | 2021-04-02 | 2021-06-06 | N |
| Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. | Health | 2021-04-02 | 2021-06-06 | 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 | 2021-04-02 | 2021-06-06 | 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 | 2021-04-02 | 2021-06-06 | 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 | 2021-04-02 | 2021-06-06 | N |
| Ensure therapeutic diets are prescribed by the attending physician and may be delegated to a registered or licensed dietitian, to the extent allowed by State law. | Health | 2021-04-02 | 2021-06-06 | N |
| Conduct and document a facility-wide assessment to determine what resources are necessary to care for residents competently during both day-to-day operations (including nights and weekends) and emergencies. | Health | 2021-04-02 | 2021-06-06 | N |
| Provide activities to meet all resident's needs. | Health | 2021-04-02 | 2021-06-06 | N |
| Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Health | 2021-04-02 | 2021-06-06 | N |
| Ensure nurse aides have the skills they need to care for residents, and give nurse aides education in dementia care and abuse prevention. | Health | 2021-04-02 | 2021-06-06 | N |
| Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Health | 2021-04-02 | 2021-06-06 | N |
| Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. | Health | 2021-04-02 | 2021-06-06 | N |
| Ensure that each resident is free from the use of physical restraints, unless needed for medical treatment. | Health | 2021-04-02 | 2021-06-06 | N |
| Give the resident's representative the ability to exercise the resident's rights. | Health | 2021-04-02 | 2021-06-06 | N |
| Conduct risk assessment and an All-Hazards approach. | Fire Safety | 2021-04-02 | 2021-05-27 | N |
| Establish procedures for tracking staff and patients during an emergency. | Fire Safety | 2021-04-02 | 2021-05-27 | N |
| Establish policies and procedures for sheltering. | Fire Safety | 2021-04-02 | 2021-05-27 | N |
| Create arrangements with other facilities to receive patients. | Fire Safety | 2021-04-02 | 2021-05-27 | N |
| Develop a communication plan. | Fire Safety | 2021-04-02 | 2021-05-27 | N |
| Provide emergency officials' contact information. | Fire Safety | 2021-04-02 | 2021-05-27 | N |
| Establish emergency prep training and testing. | Fire Safety | 2021-04-02 | 2021-05-27 | N |
| Establish staff and initial training requirements. | Fire Safety | 2021-04-02 | 2021-05-27 | N |
| Implement emergency and standby power systems. | Fire Safety | 2021-04-02 | 2021-05-27 | 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 | 2021-04-02 | 2021-05-27 | N |
| Ensure heating and ventilation systems that have been properly installed according to the manufacturer's instructions. | Fire Safety | 2021-04-02 | 2021-05-27 | N |
| To conduct inspection, testing and maintenance of fire doors by qualified individuals. | Fire Safety | 2021-04-02 | 2021-05-27 | N |
| Have generator or other power source capable of supplying service within 10 seconds. | Fire Safety | 2021-04-02 | 2021-05-27 | N |