FOOTHILL HEIGHTS CARE CENTER
Ratings & Quality
Staffing Details
| RN Hours per Resident per Day | 0.41 |
|---|---|
| Total Nurse Hours per Resident per Day | 3.95 |
| Number of Certified Beds | 49 |
| Number of Residents | 44 |
Inspection Deficiencies (50)
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
Correction date: 2025-12-31
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Correction date: 2025-08-07
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Correction date: 2025-08-08
Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
Correction date: 2025-06-19
Make sure that a working call system is available in each resident's bathroom and bathing area.
Correction date: 2025-06-19
Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
Correction date: 2025-05-09
Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason.
Correction date: 2025-05-09
Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube.
Correction date: 2025-05-09
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Correction date: 2025-05-09
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.
Correction date: 2025-05-09
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Correction date: 2025-04-25
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
Correction date: 2025-05-09
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Correction date: 2025-05-09
Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms.
Correction date: 2025-04-25
Make sure that a working call system is available in each resident's bathroom and bathing area.
Correction date: 2025-05-09
Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
Correction date: 2025-03-28
Post nurse staffing information every day.
Correction date: 2024-10-07
Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.
Correction date: 2024-09-04
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Correction date: 2024-07-06
Permit a resident to return to the nursing home after hospitalization or therapeutic leave that exceeds bed-hold policy.
Correction date: 2024-06-30
Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
Correction date: 2024-06-23
Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.
Correction date: 2024-06-23
Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
Correction date: 2024-05-28
Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.
Correction date: 2024-05-28
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.
Correction date: 2024-05-28
Encode each resident’s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment.
Correction date: 2024-05-28
Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted
Correction date: 2024-05-28
Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.
Correction date: 2024-05-28
Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.
Correction date: 2024-05-28
Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
Correction date: 2024-05-28
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Correction date: 2024-05-28
Inform resident or representatives choice to enter into binding arbitration agreement and right to refuse.
Correction date: 2024-05-28
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Correction date: 2024-05-28
Develop and implement policies and procedures for flu and pneumonia vaccinations.
Correction date: 2024-05-28
Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms.
Correction date: 2024-05-28
Develop, implement, and/or maintain an effective training program for all new and existing staff members.
Correction date: 2024-05-28
Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
Correction date: 2024-05-28
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Correction date: 2024-05-28
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Correction date: 2024-03-11
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.
Correction date: 2023-12-28
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Correction date: 2023-11-09
Ensure residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason.
Correction date: 2023-08-15
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Correction date: 2023-08-15
Let each resident or the resident's legal representative access or purchase copies of all the resident's records.
Correction date: 2023-04-03
Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
Correction date: 2021-12-23
Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
Correction date: 2021-12-23
Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
Correction date: 2021-12-23
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Correction date: 2021-12-23
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Correction date: 2021-12-23
Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms.
Correction date: 2021-12-23
Penalties & Fines
| Date | Type | Fine Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-08 | Fine | $3,039 |
| 2023-12-18 | Fine | $6,351 |
Facility Information
- Address 1515 NORTH FAIR OAKS AVE, Pasadena, CA 91103
- Phone 6267981111
- Type Medicare and Medicaid
- Ownership For profit - Limited Liability company
About FOOTHILL HEIGHTS CARE CENTER
FOOTHILL HEIGHTS CARE CENTER is a medicare and medicaid certified nursing home in Pasadena, California. The facility has 49 certified beds and currently houses 44 residents. It has received an overall quality rating of 3 out of 5 stars from CMS. The facility has 50 inspection deficiencies on record. Total fines assessed: $9,390 across 2 penalties. Registered nurse hours are 0.41 per resident per day.