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New Post: Non-functional alarm leads to fall and fractured hip at Sunset Home in Quincy - IDPH has cited and fined the Sunset Home nursing home in Quincy after the failure to use a working pressure alarm led to a resident fall causing a fractured hip. The care planning process dictates how much of the routine care in nursing home setting is delivered.  It is a multi-step, multidisciplinary process which is intended to address the risks to the health and well-being of the resident in an organized, systematic way. There are six basic steps to the care planning process: (1) an assessment of the risks to the health and well-being of the resident, (2) the development of a care plan which is intended to address those risks, (3) communication of the care plan to the members of the care team who are assigned to carry out the various elements of the care plan, (4) actual implementation of the care plan; (5) evaluation of the effectiveness of the care plan; and (6) revision of the care plan if it proves to be ineffective in practice or if the care needs of the resident change. The resident at issue here was properly assessed as being at risk of falls.  She had musculoskeletal weakness and cognitive deficits - a common reason for a resident to be considered at risk for falls.  She also had a history of falls, and one of the well-recognized truisms in the long-term care industry is that falls tend to beget additional falls. Due to her fall risk, a fall prevention care pla...