Island Health Care Inc

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to provide documentation for its biannual review of HHA's Emergency Program.

The HHA failed to include documentation for staffing situations and procurement policies for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in emergency situations in the HHA's EPP risk assessment.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to provide documentation of its policy and procedures for collaboration with local, State, and Federal emergency officials.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to provide documentation of its own policy and procedure for biannual review of the HHA's emergency preparedness policy and procedures concerning its risk assessment and its communication plan.

The Home Health Agency failed to provide documentation of its policy and procedure for follow-up of on-duty staff and patients during an emergency situation and in the event those staff members and patients are unable to be located.

The Home Health Agency failed to provide documentation of its policy and procedure for maintaining confidentiality of patient information in disaster situations.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to provide documentation of its policy and procedure for its use of volunteers in an emergency situation.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to provide documentation of the development and biannual review of a Communication Plan to be instituted in an emergency situation.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to provide documentation of a Communication Plan for maintaining contact with staff, physicians, other HHAs, and volunteers during emergency situations.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to provide documentation for an alternate means of communication with Federal, State, Regional and local emergency management agencies during emergency situations.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to provide documentation for its biannual review of its Training and Testing Program.

The Home Health Agency(HHA) failed to provide documentation of its Emergency Preparedness (EPP) training for staff for 11 of 11 staff personnel files.

The Home Health Agency(HHA) staff failed to adhere to accepted principles for infection control precautions such as placing a soiled hand into his/her shirt pocket to retrieve hand sanitizer, kneeling on floor without a barrier, and cleaning of equipment for one of two Registered Nurses (RN 1) and…

Physical Therapy Assistant (PTA) 1 failed to ensure the home health patient's medication profile was accurate with the patient's home medications for four of four patients observed in the home setting.(Patient 1, 2, 3 and 4) The findings are: Patient 3 On 8/26/2020, during a home visit from 7:55 AM…