Ascension at Home

The agency failed to enforce a written policy regarding coordination of services to ensure the effective exchange of information, reporting, and coordination of care with all service providers involved in the care of a client, including physicians, contracted health care professionals and other…

The agency failed to provide a patient or patient's responsible party with written notice of its intent to transfer or discharge the patient for 1 of 2 discharged Patients (Patient #4) for which records were reviewed.

The agency failed to enforce a written policy that detailed its patient care practices for assessment of 1 of 8 patients (Patient #4) for which records were reviewed.

The agency failed to enforce a written policy that detailed its patient care practices for planning patient care for 4 of 8 patients (Patient #1, #2, #3, and #8) for which records were reviewed.

The agency failed to enforce it's written policy to ensure compliance with the Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Act, Health and Safety Code, Chapter 85, Subchapter I, concerning the prevention of transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Hepatitis B virus for 3 of 4 employees…

Based on record review and interview the Supervising Nurse/Case Manager failed to enforce a written policy that detailed its patient care practices for planning patient care for 4 of 8 patients (Patients #1, #2, #3 and #8) for which records were reviewed.

The agency failed to adopt a written policy regarding coordination of services to ensure the effective exchange of information, between the agency and the client's physician for 5 of 8 clients (Clients #2, #3, #4, #5, and #6) for which records were reviewed.