Meridian Healthcare Providers, Inc.

The facility failed to ensure 8 of 21 current employee personnel files contained documentation of freedom from infectious tuberculosis, which poses the high potential risk to the health and safety of a patient if patients are exposed to infectious TB.

The facility failed to ensure that SN services performed by the LPN for 2 of 8 patients were being supervised by an RN according to the agency's policy and procedure and Federal regulations, which poses a high potential risk that the needs of the patient were not addressed and met within a…

The facility failed to:: 1. ensure that 14 of 21 employee files contained verification of their members skills and knowledge, as evidenced by a lack of documentation that the skills and knowledge were verified before the personnel members provided physical health services, which posed the potential…

The facility failed to require home health agency staff follow the written plan of care for 2 of 8 patients (Patients #1 and #8) that was established by their physicians.

The facility failed to ensure a registered nurse made an on-site supervisor visit to 3 of 8 patient homes at least every fourteen (14) days for patient #'s 1, 4, and 8, which poses a potential risk of harm to a patient when supervision by the RN is not conducted every 14 days, to ensure that the…