{"id":8265,"date":"2016-07-15T17:38:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T17:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idsunmedia.com\/?p=8265"},"modified":"2016-07-15T17:38:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T17:38:24","slug":"bell-mountain-ups-its-cred-in-new-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/15\/bell-mountain-ups-its-cred-in-new-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell Mountain ups its cred in new survey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nursing facility in Bellevue keeps improving<\/i><\/span><\/h2>\n

BY Dana DuGan<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Pull up to Bell Mountain Village and Care Center in the northeast corner of Bellevue and you\u2019ll think you\u2019ve arrived at a progressive elementary school, minus the young children. The three buildings\u2014Hemingway, Galena, Edelweiss\u2014are separated into skilled-nursing and assisted-living facilities, and administration. It\u2019s surrounded by pastureland, and has lovely natural landscape.<\/p>\n

Run by Safe Haven, and formerly known as Blaine Manor, each of Bell Mountain\u2019s buildings has a central kitchen and gathering area with high windows. Residential rooms are around the perimeter of the buildings. The facility also includes a therapy center with a warm treadmill-exercise pool. It\u2019s a nice, tidy, pretty location but there have been issues in the move, and with new staff.<\/p>\n

Occupied since March 2015, Bell Mountain had its annual audit for re-licensure in May.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a stellar survey for us,\u201d Rob DeLoach, Bell Mountain administrator, said. \u201cWe knew it when we wrote up our plan of correction. Our goal is to be a five-star facility within five years.\u201d<\/p>\n

All nursing homes are subject to state surveys for re-licensing. The facilities are tested on compliance with the rules and regulations according to the Department of Health and Welfare, and Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services.<\/p>\n

Each \u201ctagged\u201d item was quickly corrected but the score affects its overall rating.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe percentages get thrown off because we\u2019re such a small facility,\u201d Ursula Hulbert, registered health information technician, said. \u201cThe survey doesn\u2019t take that into account.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three surveyors were at Bell Mountain from May 9 to May 13 following staff around.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s challenging,\u201d said Hulbert. \u201cThey dig as deep as they want to go. There\u2019s not another nursing home like this in Idaho, with the three buildings, no shared rooms and the ability to group people together who are more appropriate together. We\u2019re also learning as we go,\u201d because it\u2019s a new facility.<\/p>\n

The surveyors told DeLoach that they liked the progressive facility.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have some organizational challenges on staffing but people feel better,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re not just stored in an institutional facility. It looks great and functions great. We still have to get used to it. The state of Idaho holds us to a standard where it\u2019s more homelike.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bell Mountain did receive 11 federal tags to clean up some fairly benign infractions last year, DeLoach said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re considered no jeopardy and no harm, like a wheelchair parked in front of an electrical circuit. They\u2019re easy to fix.\u201d<\/p>\n

One \u201csevere\u201d tag was given when they failed to include the phone number for Medicaid on their posters.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe look at it as having another pair of eyes,\u201d Hulbert said. \u201cIt\u2019s different every year. They\u2019ll find something. It\u2019s a good learning experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parker felt that May\u2019s survey highlighted the level of teamwork and care given the residents. Bell Mountain received five out of five stars for nursing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nursing facility in Bellevue keeps improving BY Dana DuGan Pull up to Bell Mountain Village and Care Center in the northeast corner of Bellevue and you\u2019ll think you\u2019ve arrived at a progressive elementary school, minus the young children. The three buildings\u2014Hemingway, Galena, Edelweiss\u2014are separated into skilled-nursing and assisted-living facilities, and administration. It\u2019s surrounded by pastureland, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-news","8":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}