Caretenders

The facility failed to review and/or incorporate a community-based risk assessment, developed by local/regional emergency preparedness officials.

The facility failed to ensure a process to communicate or collaborate with local, tribal, regional, State, and Federal emergency preparedness officials or efforts to maintain an integrated response during an emergency situation.

The facility failed to ensure that agreements with other health care services were arranged to ensure continuity of care for clients during a disaster/emergency event.

The facility failed to ensure training and testing requirements were met with practical applications of the facilities policies.

The facility failed to timely encode and electronically transmit Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) assessments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for 51 of 1648 records between 9/21/23 to 9/20/2024. Review on 9/24/24 of the CMS "HHA [Home Health Agency] Error…

The facility failed to follow the written plan of care for the frequency of visits and notify the physician of missed visit (Patient Identifier #8); and failed to ensure that a Patient's Home Health Certification and Plan of Care had been signed by the physician for 2 of 17 patient's reviewed for…

The facility failed to ensure that the patient and/or the patient's legal representative were provided the Admission Consent Form (which includes the Consent for Care, Consent to the Use and Disclosure of Health Information/Release of Information, Patient's Rights and Responsibilities and Privacy…

The facility failed to ensure that the patient and/or the patient's legal representative were provided the Admission Consent Form, which includes the Patient's Rights and Responsibilities during the initial evaluation visit and in advance of furnishing care to the patient for 1 of 17 patients…

The facility failed to ensure that all patient care orders were recorded in the plan of care for 1 of 17 patient charts reviewed (Patient Identifier #15).