Stafford County Hospital HHA

The agency failed to ensure the Skilled Nurse (SN) assumed the responsibility to ensure all medications used by the patient was approved and/or ordered by the physician, for one of seven sampled patients, (Patient 4).

The agency failed to ensure the plan of care was individualized by not including the initial physical therapist orders to assess and evaluate a patient for one of seven sampled patients (Patient 2); failed to include the correct frequency for the skilled nurse visits for two of seven sampled…

The home health Administrator failed to ensure the day to day operations of the home health agency were maintained, by failing to ensure the Director of Home Health adhered to the Job Description Policy # X11-3 that included the Director of Home Health to be available during all operating home…