Celebrity Home Health

The facility failed to ensure patient medical supplies were appropriate for use when multiple supplies were expired, not removed from the storage area, and were available for use on patients.

The facility failed to provide evidence one of five sampled staff members (Physical Therapist 1- PT 1) was screened for tuberculosis (a potentially serious infectious bacterial disease that mainly affects the lungs) as specified in the facility’s policy and procedure.

The facility failed to ensure nursing staff performed a review and reconciliation of all medications for three of three sampled patients (Patients 1, 2, and 3).

The facility failed to ensure criminal background checks for 3 of 5 sampled staff were performed on employees as specified in their policy and procedure when the facility utilized a background check service which included a disclaimer specifying it was not to be used for employment verification…

The agency failed to ensure that the Condition of Participation: G 406 484.50: Patient rights was in compliance as follows: Based on interview and record review the agency failed to discharge patients when an Assisted Living Facility (ALF-a living arrangement in which people with special needs…

The agency failed to discharge patients when an Assisted Living Facility (ALF-a living arrangement in which people with special needs, especially seniors, live in a facility that provides help with everyday tasks such as bathing, dressing, and taking medication) where the patients lived had…

1. Based on interview and record review, the agency failed to conduct and document an agency based risk assessment.

The agency failed to conduct and document an agency based risk assessment (facility based includes, but not limited to, hazards specific to a facility based on the geographic location; patient population; facility type and potential surrounding community) in a universe of 14 patients.

The facility failed to collaborate with local, regional, State and Federal agency preparedness officials to cooperate in the planning efforts to maintain an integrated response during disaster or emergency for a universe of 14 agency patients and their staff.

The agency failed to develop a back-up plan in the event of communications (phone service) failure during a disaster or emergency, in a universe of 14 patients.

The agency failed to attend or set up a community based hands on emergency preparedness testing with local state and community emergency preparedness agencies in preparation for unforeseen emergency or disaster.

The agency failed to ensure that infection prevention was implemented on three (3) of 3 patients visited (Patient 1, 2, and 3) when the following staff failed to place a barrier between their equipment bag and the patient home floor/table.

The agency failed to ensure that medications were properly reviewed and reconciled for one (1) of three (3) sample home visit patients (Patient 3).