Failure to Provide Bed Hold Policy Documentation Upon Hospital Transfer
Penalty
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Summary
The facility failed to provide documentation that the bed hold policy was given to a resident who was transferred to the hospital. The clinical record for a resident with diagnoses including falls, chronic pain, and low back pain showed that the resident sustained a tail bone fracture and was transported to the hospital. Upon review, there was no copy of the bed hold policy in the resident's clinical record. During an interview, the Corporate MDS nurse confirmed that the bed hold policy had not been provided. The facility's own policy requires that residents and their representatives be notified verbally and in writing about the bed hold policy before a transfer to the hospital, but this was not done in this case.