Allied Professional Nursing Care Inc

The agency failed to collaborate with local, regional, State, and Federal emergency preparedness officials to cooperate in the planning efforts and maintain an integrated response during a disaster or emergency for 13 of 13 months reviewed, in a universe of 63 patients.

The agency failed to develop procedures to inform emergency preparedness officials about patients in need of evacuation and the needs the patients would require during the evacuation process, for 13 of 13 months reviewed, in a universe of 63 patients.

The agency failed to develop a procedure and/or process to inform state and local officials of on-duty staff and patients they were unable to contact during a disaster or emergency, for 13 of 13 months reviewed, in a universe of 63 patients.

The agency failed to develop a back-up communication plan with Federal, State, tribal, regional and local emergency management agencies in the event of communications (phone service, including cellular phone and Internet) failure during a disaster or emergency, for 13 of 13 months reviewed, in a…

The agency failed to develop a policy and procedure to provide information about the agency’s occupancy, needs and staff available to help during an emergency or disaster to the authority having jurisdiction, for 13 of 13 months reviewed, in a universe of 63 patients.

The agency failed to conduct and document performance improvement projects (PIP - a concentrated effort on a particular problem in one area of the agency or agency wide; it involves gathering information systematically to clarify issues or problems, and intervening for improvements) the agency had…

The agency failed to develop a policy for staff to qualify for a temporary delay of a COVID‐19 vaccination and failed to develop a contingency plan for staff that refused a COVID‐19 vaccination and did not qualify for an exemption, for three of three months reviewed, in a universe of 63 patients.

The agency failed to conduct a recertification assessment (ReCert-an assessment to determine if home health services continue to be required by a patient for another 60-day period) within the last five days of the 60-recertification period for one of seven sampled patients (Patient 4).

The agency failed to ensure a Registered Nurse (RN 1and RN 2) followed accepted professional standards of practice of patient (Patient 2) to be elevated 30-45 degrees when one of seven sampled patients (Patient 2) was not positioned at a 30 to 45-degree angle while receiving a G-tube feeding (A…

The agency failed to ensure that ordered patient's medications (Patient 1) was administered when there was no documentation to show that it was given.

The agency failed to follow physician's orders documented on the CMS 485 (a form provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services-CMS-which documents a patient's plan of care and physician's orders) for monthly Registered Nurse (RN) supervisory visits of Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVN)…

The agency failed to conduct a recertification assessment (ReCert-an assessment to determine if home health services continue to be required by a patient for another 60-day period) within the last five days of the 60 recertification period for Patient 1. This failure had the potential to cause a…