Resident Rights Category
Criteria in the resident rights category concern quality of life and resident rights in a nursing home. A facility must care for its residents in a manner and in an environment that promotes maintenance or enhancement of each resident's quality of life.
Tag |
Description |
Regulation |
F0158 |
The facility ensures protection of resident funds. |
42CFR 483.10(c)(1) |
F0164 |
The facility honors the privacy and confidentiality of each resident. |
42CFR 483.10(e) |
F0221 |
The facility ensures that residents are free from physical restraints used for purposes other than to treat the resident's medical symptoms. |
42CFR 483.13(a) |
F0223 |
Residents are free from verbal, sexual, physical, and mental abuse; corporal punishment; and involuntary seclusion. |
42CFR 483.13(b) |
F0224 |
The facility develops and implements written policies and procedures that prohibit mistreatment, neglect, and abuse of residents and misappropriation of resident property. |
42CFR 483.13(c) |
F0240 |
The facility promotes the quality of life for each resident. |
42CFR 483.15 |
F0241 |
The facility ensures the dignity of each resident. |
42CFR 483.15(a) |
F0242 |
The facility encourages residents to participate in the planning and decisions related to care and treatment, and to make choices about aspects of his/her life in the facility that are significant to the resident. |
42CFR 483.15(b) |
F0246 |
The facility provides each resident with the right to reside and receive services with reasonable accommodation of individual needs and preferences, without endangering the well-being of the individual or other residents. |
42CFR 483.15(e)(1) |
F0248 |
The facility provides an ongoing program of activities designed to meet the interests and physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being of each resident. |
42CFR 483.15(f)(1) |