Failure to Ensure Employee Health Assessments
Summary
The facility failed to ensure that personnel records included an attestation that employees could perform their job duties prior to employment. This deficiency was identified during a review of five personnel files, which included a Licensed Practical Nurse and four Registered Nurses. The facility's policy, dated January 11, 2024, required that employees be in good health and physically able to complete their assigned duties. However, the personnel files reviewed showed that the required physical examinations were either completed after the employees' hire dates or not completed at all. Specifically, the physicals for the employees were dated after their hire dates, and one employee did not have a physical on file. Interviews with the Regional Human Resource Employee and the Nursing Home Administrator confirmed the facility's failure to comply with its policy regarding employee health assessments.
Plan Of Correction
1. Registered Nurse Employee E4 no longer works at the facility. Facility cannot correct that Licensed Practical Nurse Employee E1, Registered Nurse Employee E3, Registered Nurse Employee E5 and Registered Nurse Employee E6's physicals were dated after hire. 2. The Human Resource Director will audit employee files from the past three months to ensure that a physical was completed prior to employment. 3. The Human Resource Director will be reeducated on the facility policy for Health Assessments for Employees by the Nursing Home Administrator/designee. 4. The Nursing Home Administrator/designee will audit new hires weekly for four weeks and monthly for three months to ensure that physicals were completed prior to employment. Outcomes will be reported to the Quality Assurance Performance Improvement Committee for review and recommendations.
Penalty
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