F0151: Honor a residents' rights as a residents of the nursing home, free of coercion and reprisal, and as citizens or residents of the United States.
F0152: Give the resident's representative the ability to exercise the resident's rights.
F0153: Let each resident or the resident's legal representative access or purchase copies of all the resident's records.
F0154: Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
F0155: Let residents refuse treatment, refuse to take part in an experiment, or formulate advance directives.
F0156: Give residents a notice of rights, rules, services and charges.
F0157: Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
F0158: Let residents choose whether to manage their own money or deposit it with the nursing home.
F0159: Properly hold, secure, and manage each resident's personal money which is deposited with the nursing home.
F0160: Upon the death of a resident, convey the resident's personal funds and an accounting of those funds to the appropriate party.
F0161: Provide proof that residents' personal money that is deposited with the nursing home is secure.
F0162: Limit the charges against residents' personal funds for items or services for which payment is made under Medicare or Medicaid.
F0164: Keep residents' personal and medical records private and confidential.
F0165: Let residents voice a complaint or grievance without being treated differently or badly.
F0166: Try to resolve each resident's complaints quickly.
F0167: Allow residents to easily view the results of the nursing home's most recent inspection.
F0170: Send unopened mail from residents and promptly deliver unopened mail to residents.
F0174: Provide residents with private access to a telephone.
F0176: Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined safe.
F0201: Permit residents to remain in the facility and not be transferred or discharged without adequate reason.
F0202: Provide written records when a resident is transferred or discharged.
F0203: Provide timely notification to the resident before transfer or discharge.
F0204: Help and prepare each resident for a safe and easy discharge or transfer from the nursing home.
F0205: Tell 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.
F0206: Establish and follow a written policy that permits a resident to return to the nursing home after hospitalization or therapeutic leave that exceeds bed-hold policy.
F0208: 1) Protect current or future residents from giving up their Medicaid or Medicare benefits; or 2) follow federal rules for admissions.
F0240: Provide care for each resident in a way that maintains or improves their quality of life.
F0241: Provide care for residents in a way that maintains or improves their dignity and respect in full recognition of their individuality.
F0242: 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.
F0243: Provide resident groups or resident family groups with private space to meet.
F0244: Listen to the resident groups and act on their complaints and suggestions that affect resident care and life.
F0246: Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.
F0247: Give notice to the resident before a room or roommate change.
F0550: Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
F0551: Give the resident's representative the ability to exercise the resident's rights.
F0552: Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
F0553: Allow resident to participate in the development and implementation of his or her person-centered plan of care.
F0554: Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate.
F0555: Honor the resident's right to choose his or her attending physician.
F0557: Honor the resident's right to be treated with respect and dignity and to retain and use personal possessions.
F0558: Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.
F0559: Honor the resident's right to share a room with spouse or roommate of choice and receive written notice before a change is made.
F0560: Protect a residents' right to refuse some types of non-requested transfers within the nursing home.
F0561: Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice.
F0562: Provide immediate access to any resident.
F0563: Honor the resident's right to receive visitors of his or her choosing, at the time of his or her choosing.
F0564: Inform each resident of his or her visitation rights and ensure that all visitors enjoy equal visitation privileges.
F0565: Honor the resident's right to organize and participate in resident/family groups in the facility.
F0566: 1) Protect residents from being forced to work at the nursing home, or 2) let residents work if they want to.
F0567: Honor the resident's right to manage his or her financial affairs.
F0568: Properly hold, secure, and manage each resident's personal money which is deposited with the nursing home.
F0569: Notify each resident of certain balances and convey resident funds upon discharge, eviction, or death.
F0570: Assure the security of all personal funds of residents deposited with the facility.
F0571: Limit the charges against residents' personal funds for items or services for which payment is made under Medicare or Medicaid.
F0572: Give residents a notice of rights, rules, services and charges.
F0573: Let each resident or the resident's legal representative access or purchase copies of all the resident's records.
F0574: The resident has the right to receive notices in a format and a language he or she understands.
F0575: Post a list of names, addresses, and telephone numbers of all pertinent State agencies and advocacy groups and a statement that the resident may file a complaint with the State Survey Agency.
F0576: Ensure residents have reasonable access to and privacy in their use of communication methods.
F0577: Allow residents to easily view the nursing home's survey results and communicate with advocate agencies.
F0578: Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive.
F0579: Provide information about how to apply for and use Medicare and Medicaid benefits.
F0580: Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
F0582: Give residents notice of Medicaid/Medicare coverage and potential liability for services not covered.
F0583: Keep residents' personal and medical records private and confidential.
F0584: 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.
F0585: 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.
F0586: Not prohibit or in any way discourage a resident from communicating with federal, state, or local officials.
F0620: Not require residents to give up Medicare or Medicaid benefits, or pay privately as a condition of admission; and must tell residents what care they do not provide.
F0621: Treat residents equally regarding transfer, discharge, and provision of services for all residents, regardless of payment source
F0622: 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.
F0623: Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights.
F0624: Prepare residents for a safe transfer or discharge from the nursing home.
F0625: 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.
F0626: Permit a resident to return to the nursing home after hospitalization or therapeutic leave that exceeds bed-hold policy.
F0942: Ensure that staff members are educated on resident rights and facility responsibilities to properly care for its residents.