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Deficiency Records for Kern River Transitional Care
View the most recent health deficiencies and inspection results for Kern River Transitional Care. Stay informed about quality of care issues.
View the most recent health deficiencies and inspection results for Kern River Transitional Care. Stay informed about quality of care issues.
| Deficiency | Type of Deficiency | Deficiency Date | Date Corrected | Resulted from a Complaint? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2025-07-28 | 2025-08-28 | 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 | 2025-07-28 | 2025-08-28 | Y |
| Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Health | 2025-07-28 | 2025-08-28 | Y |
| Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments. | Health | 2025-07-28 | 2025-08-28 | Y |
| Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments. | Health | 2025-05-15 | 2025-06-20 | Y |
| Arrange for the provision of hospice services or assist the resident in transferring to a facility that will arrange for the provision of hospice services. | Health | 2025-05-15 | 2025-06-20 | Y |
| Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. | Health | 2025-05-16 | 2025-05-30 | Y |
| Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Health | 2025-04-24 | 2025-05-12 | 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 | 2025-04-24 | 2025-05-12 | N |
| Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights. | Health | 2025-04-24 | 2025-05-12 | N |
| Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed. | Health | 2025-04-24 | 2025-05-12 | N |
| Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted | Health | 2025-04-24 | 2025-05-12 | N |
| Hire a qualified full-time social worker in a facility with more than 120 beds. | Health | 2025-04-24 | 2025-05-12 | N |
| Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Health | 2025-04-24 | 2025-05-12 | N |
| Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable. | Health | 2025-04-24 | 2025-05-12 | N |
| Provide activities to meet all resident's needs. | Health | 2025-04-24 | 2025-05-12 | N |
| Provide appropriate foot care. | Health | 2025-04-24 | 2025-05-12 | 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 | 2025-04-24 | 2025-05-12 | N |
| Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services. | Health | 2025-04-24 | 2025-05-12 | 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 | 2025-04-24 | 2025-05-12 | 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 | 2025-04-24 | 2025-05-12 | N |
| Provide routine and 24-hour emergency dental care for each resident. | Health | 2025-04-24 | 2025-05-12 | N |
| Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. | Health | 2025-04-24 | 2025-05-12 | N |
| Inform resident or representatives choice to enter into binding arbitration agreement and right to refuse. | Health | 2025-04-24 | 2025-05-12 | N |
| Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies and develop corrective plans of action. | Health | 2025-04-24 | 2025-05-12 | N |
| Have the Quality Assessment and Assurance group have the required members and meet at least quarterly | Health | 2025-04-24 | 2025-05-12 | N |
| Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Health | 2025-04-24 | 2025-05-12 | 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 | 2025-04-24 | 2025-05-12 | N |
| Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments. | Health | 2025-04-24 | 2025-05-12 | N |
| Provide emergency officials' contact information. | Fire Safety | 2025-04-24 | 2025-05-02 | N |
| Have approved installation, maintenance and testing program for fire alarm systems. | Fire Safety | 2025-04-24 | 2025-05-01 | N |
| Inspect, test, and maintain automatic sprinkler systems. | Fire Safety | 2025-04-24 | 2025-05-01 | N |
| Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Health | 2025-02-25 | 2025-02-25 | Y |
| Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Health | 2025-02-25 | 2025-02-25 | Y |
| Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Health | 2024-12-31 | 2025-02-07 | Y |
| Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Health | 2024-12-09 | 2024-12-09 | Y |
| Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. | Health | 2024-12-05 | 2024-12-06 | Y |
| Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. | Health | 2024-09-05 | 2024-09-20 | Y |
| Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Health | 2024-08-22 | 2024-09-17 | Y |
| Establish a governing body that is legally responsible for establishing and implementing policies for managing and operating the facility and appoints a properly licensed administrator responsible for managing the facility. | Health | 2024-08-22 | 2024-09-17 | Y |
| Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. | Health | 2024-08-22 | 2024-09-17 | Y |
| Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals. | Health | 2024-08-22 | 2024-09-17 | Y |
| Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Health | 2024-07-31 | 2024-09-10 | 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 | 2024-08-02 | 2024-08-23 | Y |
| Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. | Health | 2024-06-25 | 2024-08-23 | Y |
| 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 | 2024-06-28 | 2024-08-23 | Y |
| Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. | Health | 2024-07-23 | 2024-08-22 | Y |
| Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. | Health | 2024-07-23 | 2024-08-22 | Y |
| Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services. | Health | 2024-07-23 | 2024-08-22 | Y |
| Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Health | 2024-07-16 | 2024-08-13 | Y |
| Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident. | Health | 2024-07-09 | 2024-07-29 | Y |
| Ensure proper usage of power strips and extension cords. | Fire Safety | 2024-05-16 | 2024-06-07 | N |
| Have generator or other power source capable of supplying service within 10 seconds. | Fire Safety | 2024-05-16 | 2024-06-07 | N |
| Ensure that building systems meet requirements determined by risk assessment procedures performed by qualified personnel. | Fire Safety | 2024-05-16 | 2024-06-07 | N |
| To conduct inspection, testing and maintenance of fire doors by qualified individuals. | Fire Safety | 2024-05-16 | 2024-06-07 | N |
| Meet other general requirements that are deficient. | Fire Safety | 2024-05-16 | 2024-06-07 | N |
| Install corridor and hallway doors that block smoke. | Fire Safety | 2024-05-16 | 2024-06-07 | N |
| Have approved installation, maintenance and testing program for fire alarm systems. | Fire Safety | 2024-05-16 | 2024-06-07 | N |
| Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. | Health | 2024-05-16 | 2024-05-31 | Y |
| 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 | 2024-05-16 | 2024-05-31 | Y |
| Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. | Health | 2024-05-16 | 2024-05-31 | Y |
| Assess the resident completely in a timely manner when first admitted, and then periodically, at least every 12 months. | Health | 2024-05-16 | 2024-05-31 | Y |
| Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed. | Health | 2024-05-16 | 2024-05-31 | Y |
| PASARR screening for Mental disorders or Intellectual Disabilities | Health | 2024-05-16 | 2024-05-31 | Y |
| Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Health | 2024-05-16 | 2024-05-31 | Y |
| Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Health | 2024-05-16 | 2024-05-31 | Y |
| Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Health | 2024-05-16 | 2024-05-31 | 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 | 2024-05-16 | 2024-05-31 | 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 | 2024-05-16 | 2024-05-31 | Y |
| Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. | Health | 2024-05-16 | 2024-05-31 | Y |
| Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate. | Health | 2024-05-16 | 2024-05-31 | Y |
| Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. | Health | 2024-05-16 | 2024-05-31 | Y |
| Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Health | 2024-05-16 | 2024-05-31 | Y |
| Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Health | 2024-04-16 | 2024-04-30 | Y |
| 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 | 2024-04-09 | 2024-04-25 | Y |
| Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing. | Health | 2024-03-17 | 2024-04-03 | Y |
| Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. | Health | 2024-02-26 | 2024-03-22 | Y |
| Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident. | Health | 2024-02-08 | 2024-02-26 | Y |
| Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Health | 2024-02-08 | 2024-02-26 | Y |
| Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift. | Health | 2024-02-08 | 2024-02-26 | Y |
| Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. | Health | 2024-02-08 | 2024-02-26 | Y |
| Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. | Health | 2024-01-10 | 2024-02-05 | Y |
| Employ staff that are licensed, certified, or registered in accordance with state laws. | Health | 2024-01-05 | 2024-01-19 | Y |
| Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. | Health | 2023-12-07 | 2023-12-22 | Y |
| Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft. | Health | 2023-12-07 | 2023-12-22 | Y |
| Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. | Health | 2023-12-07 | 2023-12-22 | Y |
| Respond appropriately to all alleged violations. | Health | 2023-12-07 | 2023-12-22 | Y |
| Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Health | 2023-12-07 | 2023-12-22 | Y |
| Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft. | Health | 2023-07-11 | 2023-07-28 | Y |
| Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Health | 2023-07-11 | 2023-07-28 | Y |
| Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. | Health | 2023-07-03 | 2023-07-17 | Y |
| Observe each nurse aide's job performance and give regular training. | Health | 2023-06-26 | 2023-07-09 | Y |
| Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident. | Health | 2021-05-13 | 2021-06-11 | N |
| Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted | Health | 2021-05-13 | 2021-06-11 | N |
| Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Health | 2021-05-13 | 2021-06-11 | N |
| Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason. | Health | 2021-05-13 | 2021-06-11 | N |
| Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health. | Health | 2021-05-13 | 2021-06-11 | N |
| Provide for the safe, appropriate administration of IV fluids for a resident when needed. | Health | 2021-05-13 | 2021-06-11 | 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 | 2021-05-13 | 2021-06-11 | 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 | 2021-05-13 | 2021-06-11 | N |
| Ensure food and drink is palatable, attractive, and at a safe and appetizing temperature. | Health | 2021-05-13 | 2021-06-11 | N |
| Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Health | 2021-05-13 | 2021-06-11 | N |
| Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate. | Health | 2021-05-13 | 2021-06-11 | N |
| Implement emergency and standby power systems. | Fire Safety | 2021-05-13 | 2021-06-03 | N |
| Keep aisles, corridors, and exits free of obstruction in case of emergency. | Fire Safety | 2021-05-13 | 2021-06-03 | N |
| Inspect, test, and maintain automatic sprinkler systems. | Fire Safety | 2021-05-13 | 2021-06-03 | N |
| Install corridor and hallway doors that block smoke. | Fire Safety | 2021-05-13 | 2021-06-03 | N |
| Have simulated fire drills held at unexpected times. | Fire Safety | 2021-05-13 | 2021-06-03 | N |
| Meet requirements for the use of electrical equipment. | Fire Safety | 2021-05-13 | 2021-06-03 | N |
| Ensure proper usage of power strips and extension cords. | Fire Safety | 2021-05-13 | 2021-06-03 | N |
| Have proper medical gas storage and administration areas. | Fire Safety | 2021-05-13 | 2021-06-03 | N |
| Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. | Health | 2026-04-29 | Not Fixed | Y |
| Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Health | 2026-04-29 | Not Fixed | Y |