Team Select Home Care

The facility failed ensure their overall E.P.P. policies and procedures were based on/compared with a review of the official community/regional risk assessment to include un-foreseen potential emergency events.

The facility failed to ensure the E.P.P. was developed with cooperation, collaboration, or input with/from any emergency management officials familiar with the geographic/regional locations or efforts to maintain an integrated response during an emergency situation.

The facility failed to ensure that policies and procedures were developed to inform emergency officials of clients in need of emergency evacuation or assistance.

The facility failed to ensure that agreements with other health care providers are arranged to ensure continuity of care for clients in the event the facility has an un-foreseen emergency/disaster event that prevents care being provided.

The facility failed to ensure the E.P.P. emergency contact information list included all the required local, Regional, State, and/or Federal emergency management officials.

The facility failed to have a facility specific emergency plan for 20 out of the 21 required elements of the E.P.P. for Home Health Agencies (H.H.A.) at CFR part 484.102. Findings include: Record review of the facilities 10 E.P.P. binders on 12/13/2019 between 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 a.m. with Staff A…

The agency failed to protect patient rights, failed to promote the exercise of patient rights, and failed to provide services by not initiating CPR (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation, a medical procedure involving repeated compression of a patient's chest, performed in an attempt to restore the blood…

The Home Health Agency failed to develop an emergency plan.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to develop an emergency preparedness communication plan.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to develop an emergency preparedness training and testing program.

The agency failed to ensure that a patient who had chosen to be a full code received all services for CPR (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation-a medical procedure involving repeated compression of a patient's chest, performed in an attempt to restore the blood circulation and breathing of a person who…

The agency failed to demonstrate that they arranged a safe and appropriate transfer to other care entities when the needs of the patient exceeded the HHA's capabilities for 1 patient out of a survey sample of 7 patients.

The facility failed to communicate with all physicians and/or other health care practitioners (as appropriate) related to the current plan of care for one patient in a survey sample of 7 patients.