CA Nursing Homes:
Services Key
updated: 6/23/2006
The following is intended to clarify CANHR's "online" presentation of data on California facilities.
Types of Facilities:
| SNF: Freestanding Skilled Nursing Facility |
D/P SNF: Distinct Part Skilled Nursing Facility (Part of a Hospital) |
ICF: Intermediate Care Facility |
| SNF (CC): Continuing Care Contract Facility (Life Care) |
Subacute: A Subacute section of a hospital or SNF |
RCF: Residential Care Facility |
| SNF (IMD): Institutions for Mental Disease |
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Medi-Cal and Medicare Certification Status:
Medi-Cal is important any time finances are limited. A facility that
is part of this program at the time of admission is not permitted to discharge
a resident for running out of money and switching from private-pay to
Medi-Cal. The DHS data is sometimes not updated immediately — it
is important to double-check this information with the facilities you
are considering.
Services:
This information comes from facility responses to questionnaires sent out by
CANHR. While it is often useful to begin by calling facilities listing
the services you are seeking, please call the facility to verify that
services are still being offered. Some facilities may offer services they
have not listed.
It is important to ask questions about any units, services, or programs
that facilities say are "special," especially if the rates for
these are higher. "Special services, goals, or programs"may
be identical to those required in all units by state and federal law.
Note the data of the survey data — Services data is likely to be most
accurate for the facilities whose responses are most recent. Please encourage
facilities to send any corrections or additions to CANHR.
- Rehab Unit or services indicates that a facility has specialized
programs for rehabilitation, possibly including strokes, head injuries, hip
replacement and other conditions.
- A Wanderer Alert system is an alarm system to alert facility staff
when a resident tries to exit. These systems can be effective at curtailing
dangerous wandering behavior in residents with dementia. However, facilities
that say they have such a security system may not have it on all the time
or in all units. Be sure to ask about when and where the system is in effect.
- Locked Wards are completely secured and may require a conservatorship
before admission.
- Alzheimer's Unit is not specifically defined by the State Dept.
of Health Services as having to provide any special or different programs.
While some Alzheimer's units may have staff and activities more attuned
to Alzheimer's residents, facilities do not have to do anything special
to call a unit an "Alzheimer's Unit."
- Types of Residents Accepted or Not Accepted: Facilities should only
accept residents for whom they can provide proper care. Some resident conditions
require special accommodations. This data shows whether the facility can accommodate
several types of special resident conditions. The key for this data is as
follows:
AIDS|ARC (A)
Alzheimer (B)
Developmentally Disabled (C)
Feeding Tube (D)
Hospice (E)
I.V. Patients (F)
Non-Elderly (G) |
No longer used (H)
Oxygen Dependent (I)
Psychiatric [primary] (J)
Psychiatric [secondary] (K)
Respite (L)
Tracheotomy (M)
Ventilator (N) |
Wanderers (O)
Age 18-30 (P)
ALS / Lou Gehrig's Disease (Q)
Huntington's (R)
Multiple Sclerosis (S)
Spinal Cord Injury (T)
Wound Care (U)
Medically Complex (V)
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- Languages shown are reported by the facility as spoken by at least one staff member who works directly with residents. The key for this data is as follows:
Arabic (dd)
Armenian (Z)
AT&T Language Line (qq)
Cantonese (B)
Chinese (D)
Creole (M)
Czech (S)
Danish (N)
Dutch (O)
Farsi (ee), Fijian (ii)
Finnish (R)
French (L)
German (Y)
Hebrew (X)
Hindi (gg) |
Hungarian (cc)
Ilocano (hh)
Indian (kk)
Indonesian (ll)
Italian (K)
Japanese (E)
Korean (F)
Laotian (nn)
Lithuanian (aa)
Mandarin (C)
Norwegian (Q)
Others (Other Languages)
Pakistani (ff)
Polish (U)
Portuguese (J) |
Punjabi (jj)
Romanian (bb)
Russian (V)
Samoan (mm)
Sign Language (ASL) (pp)
Spanish (I)
Swedish (P)
Swiss-German (T)
Tagalog (A)
Thai (H)
Tongan (oo)
Vietnamese (G)
Yiddish (W) |
- Family Councils are groups of friends and relatives of residents
that gather periodically in meetings that are not run by representatives of
the facility.
- "n/a"or "Unk." indicates that the information
is not available on this list. Call facility for more information.
