Buckeye Homecare Services, Inc

The facility failed to ensure 100% of the staff were vaccinated within 90 days from the effective date of the healthcare worker vaccine mandate and failed to develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure that all staff are fully vaccinated for COVID-19 (G687).

The agency failed to ensure the emergency preparedness plan was updated every two years and failed to document a facility-based and community-based risk assessment, utilizing an all-hazards approach.

The agency failed to develop and maintain policies and procedures based on the risk assessment.

The agency failed to provide documentation of staff knowledge or of staff training of the emergency preparedness plan for four of four personnel files reviewed (Staff C, E, L and M).

The agency failed to ensure the annual emergency drills and exersices were done.

The agency failed to ensure each patient received home health services as written in the plan of care for one of seven patients reviewed (Patient #5).

The facility failed to ensure 100% of the staff were vaccinated, the agency failed to ensure the policy included and a process was developed to track and document COVID-19 vaccine doses, a process to track and document boosters, a process by which staff may request an exemption from the staff…

The agency failed to ensure the comprehensive assessment was updated and revised the last five days of every 60 days beginning with the start of care for two of seven patients reviewed (Patient #4 and #5).

The agency failed to ensure home health aides provided services that are included in the plan of care for two of seven records reviewed (Patient #6 and #7).

The agency failed to ensure the registered nurse made an on-site visit to the location where the non skilled patient is receiving care no less frequently than every 60 days in order to observe and assess each aide performing care for two of seven patient records reviewed (Patient #4 and #5).

The agency failed to ensure the physician was notified of a wound and that the treatment for the wound was ordered by the physician.

The agency failed to ensure that individualized plans of care were reviewed and revised by the physician no less than every 60 days.

The agency failed to ensure a staff member acted in the scope of practice by recommending a wound treatment to a patient without a physician order.