Hill Top House

• Develop and maintain an Emergency Preparedness Program (EP).

  Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Jan 6, 2025

• Electronically submit to CMS complete and accurate direct care staffing information, based on payroll and other verifiable and auditable data.

  Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected Jan 4, 2025

• Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

  Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected Jan 4, 2025

• 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.

  Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected Jan 4, 2025

• Ensure that personnel concerned with handling of medical gases and cylinders are trained on the risk.

  Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Jan 6, 2025

• Ensure that building systems meet requirements determined by risk assessment procedures performed by qualified personnel.

  Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Jan 6, 2025

• Ensure that special areas are constructed so that walls can resist fire for one hour or have an approved fire extinguishing system.

  Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Jan 6, 2025

• Have restrictions on the use of highly flammable decorations.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Jan 6, 2025

• Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected Jan 4, 2025

• Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected Jan 4, 2025

• 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.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected Jan 4, 2025

• Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.

  Severity G of L: actual harm, isolatedCorrected Mar 1, 2023

• Have simulated fire drills held at unexpected times.

  Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Mar 22, 2023

• Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Mar 1, 2023

• Conduct and document a facility-wide assessment to determine what resources are necessary to care for residents competently during both day-to-day operations (including nights and weekends) and emergencies.

  Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Sep 9, 2021

• 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.

  Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Sep 9, 2021

• Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Sep 9, 2021

• Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Sep 9, 2021

• Ensure necessary information is communicated to the resident, and receiving health care provider at the time of a planned discharge.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Sep 9, 2021

• Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Sep 9, 2021

• Designate a qualified infection preventionist to be responsible for the infection prevent and control program in the nursing home.

  Severity C of L: potential for minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Sep 9, 2021

Hill Top House offers Assisted Living and Skilled Nursing / Long Term Care.

Hill Top House is located at 505 W Elm in Bucklin, Kansas.

Hill Top House is a small, hospital-district-operated nursing and assisted living community in Bucklin, Kansas, with reviewers consistently praising the warmth and long-term reliability of its staff. Families note a caring, respectful atmosphere that one reviewer says has remained consistent since the 1980s.

Hill Top House had 3 government inspection visits in the last three years, with 21 citations on file according to CMS Care Compare data. The full history, including what each citation was for and whether it was corrected, is in the inspection section on this page.

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