Vernon Home Health

The agency failed to: 1. Conduct exercises to test the Emergency Plan at least annually; 2. Analyze the agency’s response to, and maintain documentation of all drills, tabletop exercises, and actual emergency events; and 3. Revise the agency’s Emergency Plan, as needed.

The agency failed to develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure staff with qualifying exemptions, or had not completed their primary vaccination series for COVID-19 adhere to additional precautions intended to mitigate the transmission and spread of COVID-19. The agency failed to…

The agency failed to ensure the Skill Nurses were completing medication reconciliations and updated the records to reflected current medications taken for 1 (#11) of 4 (#1, #2, #3 and #11) patient home visit conducted.

The agency failed to meet the Condition of Participation related to Comprehensive Assessment of patients as evidenced: The Skilled Nurse failed to provide a comprehensive assessment of a patient's medications upon admit 09/04/2020 and each additional skilled nurse visit from 09/04/2020 through…

Home visits and interview the agency failed to meet the Condition of Participation related to the duties of the Skilled Nurse as evidenced by: The Registered Nurse failed to ensure that patient care and services were coordinated for a patient who required social services evaluations/interventions…

The Registered Nurse failed to ensure that patient care and services were coordinated for a patient who required social services evaluations/interventions (#4) for 1 of 5 (#1, #2, #3, #4, and #5) patient home visits conducted out of a total sample of 13 patients.

The agency failed to secure the confidentiality of a patient's medical information (#1) for 1 of 5 (#1, #2, #3, #4, and #5) home visits conducted out of total sample of 13. Findings: During a home visit conducted with S2 CM/ADON, S4 RN and patient #1 on 10/07/2020 at 9:55 a.m. revealed that upon…

The agency failed to ensure the Skilled Nurse provided a comprehensive assessment of a patient's medications upon admit 09/04/2020 and each additional skilled nurse visit from 09/04/2020 through 10/07/2020 (#4).

The agency failed to perform lab work in a timely manner as ordered by the physician.