Ohio Living Home Health Greater Youngstown

The agency failed to nclude a process for cooperation and collaboration with local, tribal, regional, State, and Federal emergency preparedness officials' efforts to maintain an integrated response during a disaster or emergency situation, including documentation of the facility's efforts to…

The agency failed to include plans for the agency patients during a natural or man-made disaster based on the individual plans for each patient as part of the comprehensive patient assessment.

The agency failed to include plans for the use of volunteers in an emergency or other emergency staffing strategies, including the process and role for integration of State and Federally designated health care professionals to address surge needs during an emergency.

The agency failed to include a workable method for sharing information and medical documentation for patients under the agency's care, as necessary, with other health providers to maintain the continuity of care for three of seven patients observed during a home visit (Patient #3, #4, and #7).

The agency failed to ensure nursing staff followed accepted standards of practice, including the use of standard precautions, to prevent the transmission of infections and communicable diseases for two of two patients observed receiving wound care from the agency (Patient #2 and #4).

The agency failed to ensure that a review of all medications the patient is currently using was completed for one seven patients visited ( Patient #4) was affected.