Residents Rights 2

Question 1

Right to participate in social and community events

Answer 1

Citizen and Facility Resident

Question 2

Give mood medicine only with your consent

Answer 2

Safety and Good Care

Question 3

Facility must develop written care plan

Answer 3

Participate in your own care

Question 4

Facility must deliver mail promptly and unopened

Answer 4

Privacy

Question 5

Facility may spend your money only with your permission

Answer 5

Money

Question 6

If you are paying for care, facility must give complete contract for services and costs

Answer 6

Paying for your care, getting Medicare and Medicaid

Question 7

May refuse to participate in any experimental treatment

Answer 7

Participate in your own care

Question 8

If you get Medicaid and are hospitalized 10 days or less, you must be able to return to facility even if facility discharged

Answer 8

Stay in your Facility

Question 9

Facility staff must knock before entering

Answer 9

Privacy

Question 10

You have right to move out of facility

Answer 10

Participate in your own care

Question 11

Medical and personal care are private

Answer 11

Privacy

Question 12

Before Facility can transfer of discharge you, it must prepare and orient you to be sure safe

Answer 12

Stay in your Facility

Question 13

Facility must tell you name and specialty of all doctors in your care

Answer 13

Participate in your own care

Question 14

You may go to care plan conference

Answer 14

Participate in your own care

Question 15

Cannot be force to leave facility because applying for Medicaid

Answer 15

Stay in your Facility

Question 16

Facility must give you itemized written statement of money into and out of your accounts

Answer 16

Money

Question 18

If you have a named agent under Durable Power of Attorney for HC, they may exercise your rights

Answer 18

Citizen and Facility Resident

Question 19

Right to private visits

Answer 19

Privacy

Question 20

Facility must be clean and stay healthy temperature

Answer 20

Safety and Good Care

Question 21

Can be in charge of taking your own medicine

Answer 21

Participate in your own care

Question 22

Right to make and receive phone calls in private

Answer 22

Privacy

Question 23

Right to manage your own money

Answer 23

Money

Question 24

May refuse any medical treatment

Answer 24

Participate in your own care

Question 25

If you ask facility to manage your money, they must

Answer 25

Money

Question 26

If court appointed a legal guardian, your guardian may execute your rights

Answer 26

Citizen and Facility Resident

Question 27

Facility must not physically restrain

Answer 27

Safety and Good Care

Question 28

Right to present grievances to facility, outside organizations

Answer 28

Citizen and Facility Resident

Question 29

Facility may not give info about you to others without your authorization

Answer 29

Privacy

Question 31

If you die, facility must give family accounting within 30 days

Answer 31

Money

Question 32

Right to wear own personal appropriate clothing

Answer 32

Personal Property

Question 33

Right to choose your own doctor

Answer 33

Participate in your own care

Question 34

Facility must try to keep your personal property from being lost or stolen

Answer 34

Personal Property

Question 35

May keep and use your own personal property

Answer 35

Personal Property

Question 36

Freedom of religion

Answer 36

Citizen and Facility Resident

Question 37

Right to apply for Medicare and Medicaid to help pay for care

Answer 37

Paying for your care, getting Medicare and Medicaid

Question 38

Right to complete information about your medical condition

Answer 38

Participate in your own care

Question 39

Facility must allow you to see your medical records within 24 hours

Answer 39

Participate in your own care

Question 40

Must be given written notice if it wants you to move

Answer 40

Stay in your Facility

Question 41

You have right to appeal if the facility wants you to move

Answer 41

Stay in your Facility

Question 42

Facility must not require anyone else to sign an agreement that you will pay or they will

Answer 42

Paying for your care, getting Medicare and Medicaid

Question 43

Right to vote

Answer 43

Citizen and Facility Resident

Question 44

Right to stay living in facility except medical reason, dangerous, cannot pay, facility closing

Answer 44

Stay in your Facility

Question 45

Right to ask for LTC Ombudsman for help in appeal if facility trying to move you

Answer 45

Stay in your Facility

Question 46

Facility may not require you to work

Answer 46

Participate in your own care

Question 47

If married, you and spouse right to same room

Answer 47

Privacy

Question 48

Facility must put your money into interest earning bank account

Answer 48

Money

Question 49

If you get medicaid, facility must inform you when you are $200 from limit

Answer 49

Money

Question 49

Right to participate in Resident Advisory Council

Answer 49

Citizen and Facility Resident

Question 49

Right to make a living will or durable power of attorney for health care

Answer 49

Participate in your own care

Question 50

Right to choose to have family at care plan conference

Answer 50

Participate in your own care

Question 51

You must not be abused by anyone - physical, verbal, mental, sexual

Answer 51

Safety and Good Care

Question 53

Right to be told in advance if you are being moved room, or change in roommate

Answer 53

Stay in your Facility

Question 54

You may see your financial records at any time

Answer 54

Money

Question 55

If you have development disability or mental illness, right to ask for help from Equip for Equality in appeal if being moved

Answer 55

Stay in your Facility

Question 55

Must be allowed to return to facility after being hospitalized, unless facility discharged you by process

Answer 55

Stay in your Facility

Question 55

Facility must let you see all reports of inspection

Answer 55

Citizen and Facility Resident

Question 56

If you get Medicaid, facility may not charge you for anything Medicaid covers

Answer 56

Paying for your care, getting Medicare and Medicaid

Question 57

You do not lose your rights as US or Illinois citizen because in LTC

Answer 57

Citizen and Facility Resident

Question 58

Right to meet the LTC Ombudsman, organizations, legal advocates

Answer 58

Citizen and Facility Resident

Question 59

Facility must provide services for physical and mental health and satisfaction

Answer 59

Safety and Good Care

Question 60

Right to expect facility to keep small valuables safe, get to daily

Answer 60

Personal Property

Question 61

May ask any visitor to leave

Answer 61

Privacy

Question 62

Facility must give you complete information on how to aply for medicare and medicaid

Answer 62

Paying for your care, getting Medicare and Medicaid