Deficiency Records for Northwood Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation
Updated as of June 01, 2020
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A list of the most recent deficiencies for Northwood Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation. 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? |
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Keep all essential equipment working safely. | Health | 2020-02-06 | 2020-03-06 | Y |
Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public. | Health | 2020-02-06 | 2020-03-06 | Y |
Properly hold, secure, and manage each resident's personal money which is deposited with the nursing home. | Health | 2019-11-12 | 2019-12-31 | Y |
Notify each resident of certain balances and convey resident funds upon discharge, eviction, or death. | Health | 2019-11-12 | 2019-12-31 | Y |
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Health | 2019-09-18 | 2019-10-16 | Y |
Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft. | Health | 2019-07-29 | 2019-08-21 | Y |
Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. | Health | 2019-07-29 | 2019-08-21 | Y |
Respond appropriately to all alleged violations. | Health | 2019-07-29 | 2019-08-21 | Y |
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Health | 2019-07-29 | 2019-08-21 | Y |
Have policies on smoking. | Health | 2019-07-29 | 2019-08-21 | Y |
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. | Health | 2019-07-09 | 2019-08-21 | Y |
Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. | Health | 2019-07-09 | 2019-08-21 | Y |
Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors. | Health | 2019-07-09 | 2019-08-21 | Y |
Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. | Health | 2019-03-28 | 2019-04-26 | N |
Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice. | Health | 2019-03-28 | 2019-04-26 | N |
Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft. | Health | 2019-03-28 | 2019-04-26 | N |
Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights. | Health | 2019-03-28 | 2019-04-26 | N |
Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted | Health | 2019-03-28 | 2019-04-26 | N |
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Health | 2019-03-28 | 2019-04-26 | 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 | 2019-03-28 | 2019-04-26 | N |
Provide basic life support, including CPR, prior to the arrival of emergency medical personnel , subject to physician orders and the resident?s advance directives. | Health | 2019-03-28 | 2019-04-26 | N |
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed. | Health | 2019-03-28 | 2019-04-26 | N |
Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services. | Health | 2019-03-28 | 2019-04-26 | 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 | 2019-03-28 | 2019-04-26 | N |
Provide timely, quality laboratory services/tests to meet the needs of residents. | Health | 2019-03-28 | 2019-04-26 | 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 | 2019-03-28 | 2019-04-26 | N |
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. | Health | 2019-03-28 | 2019-04-26 | N |
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Health | 2019-03-28 | 2019-04-26 | N |
Have policies on smoking. | Health | 2019-03-28 | 2019-04-26 | N |
Ensure that the facility has sufficient staff members who possess the competencies and skills to meet the behavioral health needs of residents. | Health | 2019-02-20 | 2019-03-28 | Y |
Ensure each resident?s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs. | Health | 2019-02-20 | 2019-03-28 | Y |
Post nurse staffing information every day. | Health | 2018-10-04 | 2018-10-29 | Y |
Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. | Health | 2018-05-01 | 2018-05-31 | Y |
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Health | 2018-05-01 | 2018-05-31 | Y |
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health. | Health | 2018-05-01 | 2018-05-31 | Y |
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. | Health | 2018-05-01 | 2018-05-31 | Y |
Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable. | Health | 2018-04-10 | 2018-05-31 | Y |
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 | 2018-04-10 | 2018-05-31 | Y |
Assess the resident completely in a timely manner when first admitted, and then periodically, at least every 12 months. | Health | 2018-02-08 | 2018-05-31 | N |
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. | Health | 2018-02-08 | 2018-05-31 | N |
Observe each nurse aide's job performance and give regular training. | Health | 2018-02-08 | 2018-05-31 | N |
Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. | Health | 2018-02-08 | 2018-05-31 | N |
Ensure each resident?s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs. | Health | 2018-02-08 | 2018-05-31 | 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 | 2018-02-08 | 2018-05-31 | N |
Provide or obtain laboratory tests/services when ordered and promptly tell the ordering practitioner of the results. | Health | 2018-02-08 | 2018-05-31 | N |
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. | Health | 2018-02-08 | 2018-05-31 | N |
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Health | 2018-02-08 | 2018-05-31 | N |
Implement a program that monitors antibiotic use. | Health | 2018-02-08 | 2018-05-31 | N |
Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. | Health | 2018-02-27 | 2018-05-31 | Y |
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Health | 2018-01-04 | 2018-01-18 | Y |
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Health | 2017-12-05 | 2018-01-18 | Y |
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Health | 2017-12-05 | 2018-01-18 | Y |
Ensure residents maintain acceptable nutritional status. | Health | 2017-11-14 | 2018-01-18 | Y |
Provide routine and emergency drugs through a licensed pharmacist and only under the general supervision of a licensed nurse. | Health | 2017-11-14 | 2018-01-18 | Y |
Let each resident or the resident's legal representative access or purchase copies of all the resident's records. | Health | 2017-10-19 | 2018-01-18 | Y |
Ensure residents have the right to have a choice over activities, their schedules, and health care according to their interests, assessments, and plans of care. | Health | 2017-09-18 | 2018-01-18 | Y |
Provide medically-related social services to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life. | Health | 2017-09-08 | 2018-01-18 | Y |
Provide routine and emergency drugs through a licensed pharmacist and only under the general supervision of a licensed nurse. | Health | 2017-07-13 | 2017-07-28 | Y |
Make sure that residents receive treatments/services to maintain or improve their ability to care for themselves. | Health | 2017-06-13 | 2017-07-28 | Y |
Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. | Health | 2017-05-04 | 2017-07-28 | Y |
Provide necessary care and services to maintain or improve the highest well being of each resident . | Health | 2017-05-04 | 2017-07-28 | Y |
Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. | Health | 2016-12-22 | 2017-02-08 | N |
Provide care for residents in a way that maintains or improves their dignity and respect in full recognition of their individuality. | Health | 2016-12-22 | 2017-02-08 | N |
Listen to the resident groups and act on their complaints and suggestions that affect resident care and life. | Health | 2016-12-22 | 2017-02-08 | N |
Provide housekeeping and maintenance services. | Health | 2016-12-22 | 2017-02-08 | N |
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment by a qualified health professional. | Health | 2016-12-22 | 2017-02-08 | N |
Allow residents the right to participate in the planning or revision of care and treatment. | Health | 2016-12-22 | 2017-02-08 | N |
Provide care by qualified persons according to each resident's written plan of care. | Health | 2016-12-22 | 2017-02-08 | N |
Assist those residents who need help with eating/drinking, grooming and personal and oral hygiene. | Health | 2016-12-22 | 2017-02-08 | N |
Give residents proper treatment to prevent new bed (pressure) sores or heal existing bed sores. | Health | 2016-12-22 | 2017-02-08 | N |
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provide adequate supervision to prevent avoidable accidents. | Health | 2016-12-22 | 2017-02-08 | N |
Keep the rate of medication errors (wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong time) to less than 5%. | Health | 2016-12-22 | 2017-02-08 | N |
Ensure that residents are safe from serious medication errors. | Health | 2016-12-22 | 2017-02-08 | N |
Have enough nurses to care for every resident in a way that maximizes the resident's well being. | Health | 2016-12-22 | 2017-02-08 | N |
Prepare food that is nutritional, appetizing, tasty, attractive, well-cooked, and at the right temperature. | Health | 2016-12-22 | 2017-02-08 | N |
Make sure that special or therapeutic diets are ordered by the attending doctor. | Health | 2016-12-22 | 2017-02-08 | N |
Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way. | Health | 2016-12-22 | 2017-02-08 | N |
Maintain drug records and properly mark/label drugs and other similar products according to accepted professional standards. | Health | 2016-12-22 | 2017-02-08 | N |
Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading. | Health | 2016-12-22 | 2017-02-08 | N |
Keep all essential equipment working safely. | Health | 2016-12-22 | 2017-02-08 | N |
Give or get quality laboratory services/tests in a timely manner to meet the needs of residents. | Health | 2016-12-22 | 2017-02-08 | N |
Provide or obtain laboratory services only when ordered by the attending physician. | Health | 2016-12-22 | 2017-02-08 | N |
Quickly tell the resident's doctor the results of laboratory tests. | Health | 2016-12-22 | 2017-02-08 | N |
Keep accurate, complete and organized clinical records on each resident that meet professional standards. | Health | 2016-12-22 | 2017-02-08 | N |
Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies quarterly, and develop corrective plans of action. | Health | 2016-12-22 | 2017-02-08 | N |