Good Samaritan Northwest Kansas Home Health

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to develop and maintain an emergency preparedness plan (EPP) based on a facility-based and community-based all hazards risk assessment, utilizing an all-hazards approach and include strategies for addressing emergency events identified by the risk assessment.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to develop and maintain an emergency preparedness plan (EPP) that addressed patient population, the services the facility has the ability to provide in an emergency; and continuity of operations including the delegation of authority and succession plan.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to develop and maintain an emergency preparedness plan (EPP) that included a process for cooperation and collaboration with local, tribal, regional, State, and Federal emergency preparedness officials' efforts to maintain an integrated response during a disaster…

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to develop and implement a policy to address individual plans for each patient during a natural or man-made disaster.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to develop and implement emergency preparedness program (EPP) policies and procedures to inform State and local emergency preparedness officials about homebound home health patients in need of evacuation from their residences at any time due to an emergency…

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to develop and implement policies and procedures for a system of medical documentation that preserves patient information, protects confidentiality and secures and maintains availability of records.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to develop and implement policies and procedures for the use of volunteers in an emergency or other emergency staffing strategies, including the process and role for integration of State and Federally designated health care professionals to address surge needs…

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to develop an emergency officials contact list.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to develop and implement emergency preparedness program (EPP) policies and procedures for a communication plan that included methods of sharing information and medical documentation.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to develop and maintain an emergency preparedness program (EPP) training and testing program that is based on the emergency plan, its risk assessment and the communication plan.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed participate in a full-scale community-based emergency preparedness program (EPP) exercise or conduct an annual facility-based functional exercise in the past 2 years.

The agency failed to ensure the skilled professionals assumed responsibility to developed each patient's plan of care, completely, to include: 1. All Patient-specific goals in the goal section of the patient's plan of care, for four of five current sampled patients (Patient 1, 3, 4, and 5) and five…

The agency failed to ensure the skilled nurse developed each patient's plan of care, completely, to include: 1. All Patient-specific goals in the goal section of the patient's plan of care, for four of five current sampled patients (Patient 1, 3, 4, and 5) and five of five discharged sampled…