Residents Rights 2 Flashcards
Right to participate in social and community events
Citizen and Facility Resident
Give mood medicine only with your consent
Safety and Good Care
Facility must develop written care plan
Participate in your own care
Facility must deliver mail promptly and unopened
Privacy
Facility may spend your money only with your permission
Money
If you are paying for care, facility must give complete contract for services and costs
Paying for your care, getting Medicare and Medicaid
May refuse to participate in any experimental treatment
Participate in your own care
If you get Medicaid and are hospitalized 10 days or less, you must be able to return to facility even if facility discharged
Stay in your Facility
Facility staff must knock before entering
Privacy
You have right to move out of facility
Participate in your own care
Medical and personal care are private
Privacy
Before Facility can transfer of discharge you, it must prepare and orient you to be sure safe
Stay in your Facility
Facility must tell you name and specialty of all doctors in your care
Participate in your own care
You may go to care plan conference
Participate in your own care
Cannot be force to leave facility because applying for Medicaid
Stay in your Facility
Facility must give you itemized written statement of money into and out of your accounts
Money
If you have a named agent under Durable Power of Attorney for HC, they may exercise your rights
Citizen and Facility Resident
Right to private visits
Privacy
Facility must be clean and stay healthy temperature
Safety and Good Care
Can be in charge of taking your own medicine
Participate in your own care
Right to make and receive phone calls in private
Privacy
Right to manage your own money
Money
May refuse any medical treatment
Participate in your own care
If you ask facility to manage your money, they must
Money
If court appointed a legal guardian, your guardian may execute your rights
Citizen and Facility Resident
Facility must not physically restrain
Safety and Good Care
Right to present grievances to facility, outside organizations
Citizen and Facility Resident
Facility may not give info about you to others without your authorization
Privacy
If you die, facility must give family accounting within 30 days
Money
Right to wear own personal appropriate clothing
Personal Property
Right to choose your own doctor
Participate in your own care
Facility must try to keep your personal property from being lost or stolen
Personal Property
May keep and use your own personal property
Personal Property
Freedom of religion
Citizen and Facility Resident
Right to apply for Medicare and Medicaid to help pay for care
Paying for your care, getting Medicare and Medicaid
Right to complete information about your medical condition
Participate in your own care
Facility must allow you to see your medical records within 24 hours
Participate in your own care
Must be given written notice if it wants you to move
Stay in your Facility
You have right to appeal if the facility wants you to move
Stay in your Facility
Facility must not require anyone else to sign an agreement that you will pay or they will
Paying for your care, getting Medicare and Medicaid
Right to vote
Citizen and Facility Resident
Right to stay living in facility except medical reason, dangerous, cannot pay, facility closing
Stay in your Facility
Right to ask for LTC Ombudsman for help in appeal if facility trying to move you
Stay in your Facility
Facility may not require you to work
Participate in your own care
If married, you and spouse right to same room
Privacy
Facility must put your money into interest earning bank account
Money
If you get medicaid, facility must inform you when you are $200 from limit
Money
Right to participate in Resident Advisory Council
Citizen and Facility Resident
Right to make a living will or durable power of attorney for health care
Participate in your own care
Right to choose to have family at care plan conference
Participate in your own care
You must not be abused by anyone - physical, verbal, mental, sexual
Safety and Good Care
Right to be told in advance if you are being moved room, or change in roommate
Stay in your Facility
You may see your financial records at any time
Money
If you have development disability or mental illness, right to ask for help from Equip for Equality in appeal if being moved
Stay in your Facility
Must be allowed to return to facility after being hospitalized, unless facility discharged you by process
Stay in your Facility
Facility must let you see all reports of inspection
Citizen and Facility Resident
If you get Medicaid, facility may not charge you for anything Medicaid covers
Paying for your care, getting Medicare and Medicaid
You do not lose your rights as US or Illinois citizen because in LTC
Citizen and Facility Resident
Right to meet the LTC Ombudsman, organizations, legal advocates
Citizen and Facility Resident
Facility must provide services for physical and mental health and satisfaction
Safety and Good Care
Right to expect facility to keep small valuables safe, get to daily
Personal Property
May ask any visitor to leave
Privacy
Facility must give you complete information on how to aply for medicare and medicaid
Paying for your care, getting Medicare and Medicaid
