FAQs

Yes, we are a 59-bed MediCare/MediCal certified facility.

Our California Resident Handbook provides important and useful information on the services and amenities our facility provides. Download the document using the link on the right or below. We have also provided a link to download another information brochure – “Your Right to Make Decisions About Medical Treatment”.

Download a PDF of our Covenant Care California Resident Handbook
Download a PDF of our “Your Right to Make Decisions About Medical Treatment” Brochure

We have nurses on duty 24-hours a day, seven days a week. Our nurses have to meet standards set by the State’s Board of Registered Nurses for licensure. The charge nurses supervise a staff of certified assistants (CNA’s) who help patients with bathing, dressing, and meals. In addition, the CNAs take vital signs (i.e., blood pressure, temperature, and pulse) and report these to the charge nurse. Authorized family members may also call the charge nurse at any time for a status report on a patient’s medical condition. We are here to assist with the family’s concerns as well as the patients.

All therapies require a physician’s order. In the case of an HMO, therapy must also have authorization for treatment from the HMO’s case manager or utilization manager. The amount of therapy received by a patient is dependent on how much progress the patient makes. All therapists need to document significant progress to keep a patient on a caseload.

Our facility offers laundry services or a family may elect to do a patient’s laundry at home.

We unlock the doors at 6:00am and lock them at 8:00 pm. We understand that most of us work and have difficulty visiting during the daytime. We ask that families use their best judgement in regard to the length of stay per visit and the time of the visit.

Our hairdresser is available by appointment only and the services are provided in the residents’ room.

Physicians are contacted at the time of admission for medication orders, dietary requirements, and other considerations, and will visit patients shortly after admission. Physicians make monthly visit for long-term care patients, and a physician is available 24 hours per day.

We contract with many ancillary service providers including (but not limited to) the following:

• Audiology
• Psychiatry
• Psychology
• Dentistry
• Orthotics & Prosthetics
• Podiatry
• X-ray services
• Optometry
• Opthalmology
• Dermatology
• Respiratory Therapy

Our business office manager should be able to help you with most of your questions and concerns. If you have an HMO, you can discuss any concerns with the case manager assigned to the patients.

We have a dietary supervisor that is available to discuss patient preferences and needs with the patient and/or family. We also have a registered dietician that monitors each patient’s dietary requirements, weight gain and/or loss, etc.. In addition, our speech therapist is available to discuss special concerns due to a patient’s inability to swallow safely. We ask family members to please not bring in food from home unless the charge nurse has indicated that it is all right to do so.

Social Services makes all transportation arrangements.

We post a monthly calendar that shows each day’s schedule of activities for our residents. These activities include (but are not limited to) the following: Bingo, Music, Arts and crafts, Outings, Cooking classes, Adult Education, Movies, Petting Zoo, Speakers, Physical Fitness, The Daily News, Church Services.

Yes, but only if there is a written physician’s order. Part A Medicare patients are the exception. Medicare feels that if a patient needs skilled Part A coverage, that he/she is too ill to leave the building with the exception of doctor’s visits or tests scheduled at an acute hospital. Other patients need to be signed out by the responsible party at the nurse’s station.

In addition to English, we have speakers of multiple Filipino dialects, as well as Spanish. In the case of less common languages, we ask family members to help us develop a word bank in the patient’s native language to provide a communication system. We also are in contact with community resources that assist us with establishing communication. Sometimes we use pictures to our nursing staff in understanding how to meet patient needs.

This is usually not a problem, but please check with the charge nurse first.