March 2009 Nursing Home Report Card: Clara Manor Nursing Home
Clara Manor Nursing Home is a 90 bed nursing home facility located in Kansas City, Missouri. Clara Manor Nursing Home received six deficiencies in 2008, seventeen deficiencies in 2007, and twenty-two deficiencies in 2006. The average number of nursing home deficiencies in Missouri is nine. Currently, Clara Manor Nursing Home is rated as a one-star nursing home, according to the new system instituted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, which is a below average rating.
All nursing home residents deserve professional services that meet a professional standard of quality. Clara Manor Nursing Home has consistently failed its residents in this area over the past three years. The facility has also failed to ensure that residents entering the facility without a catheter are not given a catheter unless necessary and failed to provide the appropriate care for residents needing special services. In at least one instance, Clara Manor also failed to write and use policies that forbid mistreatment, neglect, and abuse of residents.
Care Plans must be developed for each resident to meet the resident's medical, nursing, and mental needs. The Care Plan needs to be routinely assessed and updated to reflect the resident's ongoing needs. Clara Manor failed to develop a Care Plan that met the needs of the resident and keep the Care Plans updated. The facility also failed to ensure that assessements were done by the appropriate personnel.
All residents deserve to be treated fairly. Clara Manor failed to advise a resident or resident's representative in writing how long the facility would hold a resident's bed and failed to have a private telephone available for a resident's use.
Clara Manor is required by law to provide nutrition, dietary, and housekeeping services to maintain a sanitary, orderly, and comfortable facility. This facility failed to have an infection prevention program in place and failed to ensure that staff members washed their hands when necessary. The facility failed to ensure that the nursing home was free of accident causing dangers and provide necessary maintenance. The facility did not prepare food that was nutritional, appetizing, tasty, and cooked at the right temperature in at least one instance. The facility also failed to have enough outside airflow. In at least one instance, the facility failed to ensure residents who took drugs were not given too many doses for too long and failed to keep the rate of medication error under 5%
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