Caring Hand Home Health Care

Agency failed to maintain, and review an emergency preparedness plan to include a documented, facility-based and community-based risk assessment, utilizing an all-hazards approach.

Agency failed to participate in a full-scale exercise that is community-based exercise is not accessible, an individual, facility-based.

The agency failed to ensure the emergency preparedness plan included a completed risk assessment/hazard vulnerability analysis (HVA).

The agency failed to ensure written notice of the agency's transfer and discharge policies were provided to eight (8) of eight (8) patients who were admitted and discharged from home health services in 2020. (Patients #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7 and #8) Finding include: On May 13, 2021 at…

The agency failed to ensure written notification of the right to be free from verbal, mental, sexual, and physical abuse, including injuries of unknown source, neglect and misappropriation of property was provided to eight (8) of eight (8) patients who were admitted and discharged from home health…

The agency failed to ensure the "Home Health Certification and Plan of Care" included a description of the patient's risk for emergency department visits/hospital re-admission and all necessary interventions to address the underlying risk factors for eight (8) of eight (8) patients who were…

The agency failed to ensure that the last qualified clinician to provide skilled home health services completed the discharge assessment for two (2) of three (3) patients for whom an unplanned discharge occurred in 2020. (Patients #2 and #5) Finding include: On May 13, 2021 at approximately 3:12…

The agency failed to establish and maintain a comprehensive emergency preparedness program that meets the requirements of this section.

The administrator failed to ensure that ten (10) of ten (10) patients were provided with the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of the following Federally-funded and state-funded entities that serve the area in which the patient resided: Agency on Aging, Center for Independent Living…