Failure to Meet Required Nursing Care Hours
Penalty
Summary
The facility failed to meet the regulatory requirement of providing a minimum of 3.2 hours of direct resident care per resident in a 24-hour period on five occasions between December 25, 2024, and January 14, 2025. Specifically, the facility provided only 3.09 hours on December 25, 2024; 3.02 hours on January 1, 2025; 2.98 hours on January 3, 2025; 2.91 hours on January 5, 2025; and 2.88 hours on January 9, 2025. This deficiency was confirmed through a review of nursing schedules and an interview with the Nursing Home Administrator on January 15, 2025.
Plan Of Correction
1. The facility cannot retroactively correct nursing staffing hours and ratios. 2. The facility is focusing on the retention of existing nursing staff and recruiting new staff through the efforts of the staffing committee and human resource department. 3. The Executive Director (ED) re-educated the scheduler and nursing supervisors on the staffing ratios and hours per patient day (HPPD). Staffing meetings to review the calculations for nursing staff ratios and HPPD for accuracy. 4. The ED or Designees to conduct Quality Improvement (QI) monitoring of daily schedules to ensure the ratio of care/minimum PPD will be met. QI monitoring conducted via OnShift Daily Schedules reviewed weekly x 4 weeks, then once a month as needed. Findings reported to the Quality Improvement Performance Improvement (QAPI) committee and updated as indicated. QI monitoring schedule modified based on findings.