Failure to Ensure Timely Therapy Orders at Discharge
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Summary
A deficiency occurred when the facility failed to ensure that therapy orders were in place for a resident being discharged after a stroke. The resident was discharged according to the family's wishes, despite the therapy department recommending two additional weeks of therapy. Although a referral to a Home Health Agency was submitted, the necessary physical therapy and occupational therapy orders were not signed before discharge because the physician was not present in the facility. As a result, the home health provider did not receive the therapy orders until the resident visited their primary care physician after discharge, causing a delay in the initiation of home health therapy services.