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EASTVIEW HEALTH CARE CENTER
7755 FOURTH AVENUE SOUTH
BIRMINGHAM, AL  35206
(205) 833-0146

Size (date of last inspection: 20060713)
112 total beds available
44 current residents
39% occupied

Staff Presence
2.13 nurse hours per resident per day
0.13 with Registered Nurses
0.61 with Licensed Practical Nurses
1.39 with Certified Nurse Assistants

Medicare and Medicaid
Yes participant in Medicare
Yes participant in Medicaid

Administration Details
  • This home is owned by a for-profit corporation
  • This home is not located within a hospital
  • The owner does own other homes
  • This home has resident and family councils

    Resident Details (survey date: 20060713)
    0%Percent of Short-Stay Residents With Pressure Sores
    0%Percent of Low-Risk Residents Who Have Pressure Sores
    0%Percent of Short-Stay Residents Who Had Moderate to Severe Pain
    0%Percent of Short-Stay Residents With Delirium
    5%Percent of Residents Who Have/Had a Catheter Inserted and Left in Their Bladder
    62%Percent of Low-Risk Residents Who Lose Control of Their Bowels or Bladder
    6%Percent of Residents Who are More Depressed or Anxious
    15%Percent of Residents Whose Ability to Move About in and Around Their Room Got Worse
    10%Percent of High-Risk Residents Who Have Pressure Sores
    4%Percent of Residents Who Lose Too Much Weight
    0%Percent of Residents Who Have Moderate to Severe Pain
    2%Percent of Residents With a Urinary Tract Infection
    15%Percent of Residents Whose Need for Help With Daily Activities Has Increased
    0%Percent of Residents Who Were Physically Restrained
    4%Percent of Residents Who Spend Most of Their Time in Bed or in a Chair

    Deficiencies Found in Home Inspections
    12
    1...12     		Administration: Be administered in a way that leads to the highest possible level of well being for each resident.
    Level of Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safetyScope: Widespread
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050620
    12
    1...12     		Administration: Give or get lab tests to meet the needs of residents.
    Level of Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safetyScope: Widespread
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050421
    12
    1...12     		Pharmacy Service: Have drugs and other similar products available, which are needed every day and in emergencies, and give them out properly.
    Level of Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safetyScope: Widespread
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050421
    9
    1...12     		Administration: Set up or keep a group of people to review and ensure quality.
    Level of Harm: Actual harmScope: Widespread
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050620
    8
    1...12     		Quality Care: Give residents proper treatment to prevent new bed (pressure) sores or heal existing bed sores.
    Level of Harm: Actual harmScope: Pattern
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050620
    7
    1...12     		Quality Care: Give each resident enough fluids to keep them healthy and prevent dehydration.
    Level of Harm: Actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20031106Corrected By: 20031220
    7
    1...12     		Quality Care: Give residents proper treatment to prevent new bed (pressure) sores or heal existing bed sores.
    Level of Harm: Actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20031106Corrected By: 20031220
    7
    1...12     		Quality Care: Provide social services for related medical problems to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life.
    Level of Harm: Actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050401
    7
    1...12     		Resident Assessment: Make a complete assessment that covers all questions for areas that are listed in official regulations.
    Level of Harm: Actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20031106Corrected By: 20031220
    7
    1...12     		Mistreatment: Protect residents from mistreatment, neglect, and/or theft of personal property.
    Level of Harm: Actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050620
    6
    1...12     		Pharmacy Service: Use the services of a licensed pharmacist.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Widespread
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050401
    6
    1...12     		Quality Care: Have enough nurses to care for every resident in a way that maximizes the resident's well being.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Widespread
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050620
    6
    1...12     		Administration: Make sure that nurse aides show they have the skills to be able to care for residents.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Widespread
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050401
    5
    1...12     		Resident Rights: Keep each resident's personal and medical records private and confidential.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Pattern
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050401
    5
    1...12     		Resident Rights: Provide care in a way that keeps or builds each resident's dignity and self respect.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Pattern
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050401
    5
    1...12     		Pharmacy Service: Keep the rate of medication errors (wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong time) to less than 5%.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Pattern
    Survey Date: 20031106Corrected By: 20031220
    5
    1...12     		Resident Rights: Provide care in a way that keeps or builds each resident's dignity and self respect.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Pattern
    Survey Date: 20031106Corrected By: 20031220
    5
    1...12     		Nutrition and Diet: 1) Provide 3 meals daily at regular times; or 2) serve breakfast within 14 hours after dinner; or 3) offer a snack at bedtime each day.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Pattern
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050401
    4
    1...12     		Environmental: Make sure that a working call system is available in each resident's room or bathroom and bathing area.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050401
    4
    1...12     		Environmental: Move, clean and store sheets, towels and other linens in a way that prevents the spread of infection.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050401
    4
    1...12     		Environmental: Make sure that staff members wash their hands when needed.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050401
    4
    1...12     		Environmental: Have a program to keep infection from spreading.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050620
    4
    1...12     		Environmental: Get rid of garbage properly.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20060713Corrected By: 20060821
    4
    1...12     		Administration: Keep accurate and appropriate medical records.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050620
    4
    1...12     		Nutrition and Diet: Make sure that residents are well nourished.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20060713Corrected By: 20060821
    4
    1...12     		Quality Care: Have enough nurses to care for every resident in a way that maximizes the resident's well being.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20060713Corrected By: 20060821
    4
    1...12     		Pharmacy Service: Keep the rate of medication errors (wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong time) to less than 5%.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20060713Corrected By: 20060821
    4
    1...12     		Quality Care: Give proper treatment to residents with feeding tubes to prevent problems (such as aspiration pneumonia, diarrhea, vomiting, dehydration, metabolic abnormalities, nasal-pharyngeal ulcers) and help restore eating skills, if possible.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20060713Corrected By: 20060821
    4
    1...12     		Quality Care: Give residents proper treatment to prevent new bed (pressure) sores or heal existing bed sores.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20060713Corrected By: 20060821
    4
    1...12     		Resident Assessment: Make a complete assessment that covers all questions for areas that are listed in official regulations.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20060713Corrected By: 20060821
    4
    1...12     		Quality Care: Provide social services for related medical problems to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20060713Corrected By: 20060821
    4
    1...12     		Resident Rights: Quickly give a resident's personal money to the heads of his or her estate after the resident's death.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20060713Corrected By: 20060821
    4
    1...12     		Nutrition and Diet: Make sure that the attending doctor orders special diets.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050401
    4
    1...12     		Nutrition and Diet: Offer other nutritional food to each resident who will not eat the food served.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050620
    4
    1...12     		Resident Rights: Let the resident or the resident's representative look at all records.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050620
    4
    1...12     		Administration: Get services outside the nursing home that meet professional standards.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20031106Corrected By: 20031220
    4
    1...12     		Nutrition and Diet: Provide food in a way that meets a resident's needs.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20031106Corrected By: 20031220
    4
    1...12     		Pharmacy Service: Make sure that residents are safe from serious medication errors.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20031106Corrected By: 20031220
    4
    1...12     		Quality Care: Properly care for residents needing special services, including: injections, colostomy, ureostomy, ileostomy, tracheostomy care, tracheal suctioning, respiratory care, foot care, and prostheses.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20031106Corrected By: 20031220
    4
    1...12     		Resident Assessment: Make sure all assessments are accurate, coordinated by an RN, done by the right professional, and are signed by the person completing them.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20031106Corrected By: 20031220
    4
    1...12     		Resident Assessment: Do a new assessment after any major change in a resident's physical or mental health.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20031106Corrected By: 20031220
    4
    1...12     		Quality Care: Provide social services for related medical problems to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20031106Corrected By: 20031220
    4
    1...12     		Mistreatment: Write and use policies that forbid mistreatment, neglect and abuse of residents and theft of residents' property.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20031106Corrected By: 20031220
    4
    1...12     		Resident Rights: Try to resolve each resident's complaints quickly.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050401
    4
    1...12     		Resident Rights: Provide written records when a resident is transferred or discharged.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050620
    4
    1...12     		Pharmacy Service: Make sure that residents are safe from serious medication errors.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050620
    4
    1...12     		Pharmacy Service: Keep the rate of medication errors (wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong time) to less than 5%.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050620
    4
    1...12     		Environmental: Make sure that the nursing home area is free of dangers that cause accidents.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050401
    4
    1...12     		Resident Rights: Make sure each resident has the right to choose activities, schedules and health care according to his or her interests, assessment, and plan of care.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050620
    4
    1...12     		Resident Assessment: 1) Develop a complete care plan within 7 days of each resident's admission; 2) prepare a care plan with the care team, including the primary nurse, doctor, resident or resident's family or representative; or 3) check and update the care plan.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050401
    4
    1...12     		Resident Assessment: Make a complete assessment that covers all questions for areas that are listed in official regulations.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050620
    4
    1...12     		Resident Rights: Provide services to meet the needs and preferences of each resident.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050620
    4
    1...12     		Mistreatment: 1) Hire only people who have no legal history of abusing, neglecting or mistreating residents; or 2) report and investigate any acts or reports of abuse, neglect or mistreatment of residents.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050620
    4
    1...12     		Resident Rights: Immediately tell the resident, doctor, and a family member if: the resident is injured, there is a major change in resident's physical/mental health, there is a need to alter treatment significantly, or the resident must be transferred or discharged.
    Level of Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harmScope: Isolated
    Survey Date: 20031106Corrected By: 20031220
    3
    1...12     		Environmental: Keep safe, clean and homelike surroundings.
    Level of Harm: Potential for minimal harmScope: Widespread
    Survey Date: 20050113Corrected By: 20050620

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