Heart and Home Health Care

The facility failed to ensure 100% of the staff were vaccinated within 60 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. The cumulative effect of these…

The facility failed to ensure 100% of the staff were vaccinated within 60 days from the effective date of the healthcare worker vaccine mandate.

The agency failed to develop a policy and procedure to ensure that addressed the use of employees in an emergency or other emegency staffing strategies, including the process and role for integration of State and Federally designated health care professionals to address surge needs during an…

The agency failed to maintain a program for the surveillance, identification, prevention, or control of COVID 19 and failed to establish policies and procedures specific to COVID 19. This could potentually affect all patients receiving services from the agency.

The agency failed to provide infection control education regarding transmission of infectious diseases and specifically mitigating transmission of COVID-19 to patients and caregivers.

The agency failed to ensure services were provided per the physician ordered plan of care for three of seven patient records reviewed (Patient #1, #2 and #7) The census was 14. Findings include: 1. Review of the medical record for Patient #1 revealed a physician ordered plan of care dated 11/27/18…

The agency failed to ensure the home health aide (HHA) followed the plan of care for completion of tasks assigned to a home health aide by the registered nurse for one of two records reviewed with HHA services (Patient #6).