Failure to Provide Ordered Rehabilitation Therapy Evaluations
Penalty
Summary
The deficiency involves the facility’s failure to provide ordered specialized rehabilitative services, specifically occupational, physical, and speech therapy evaluations and treatment, for one resident admitted for rehabilitation following a closed head injury. The resident was discharged from the hospital to the facility on 1/15/26 with a primary diagnosis of closed head injury and with physician orders dated 1/16/26 for OT, PT, and speech therapy evaluations and to treat as indicated. The Medical Certification for Medicaid Long-Term Care and Services and Patient Transfer Form dated 1/14/26 documented that the resident was being discharged to a skilled facility for rehabilitation. The resident’s daughter reported that her father had been hospitalized after a fall at home and that she was informed by the resident and his wife that rehabilitation therapy would not begin until 2/02/26. The Director of Therapy confirmed that although the resident was admitted with therapy orders on 1/16/26, only a wheelchair evaluation was completed on 1/16/26 and a wheelchair was provided that day. She stated that the standard practice was to complete therapy evaluations within 48 hours of admission, but in this case, the PT, OT, and speech evaluations were not performed as ordered and were instead scheduled for 2/02/26. These evaluations were not completed on 2/02/26 because the resident was sent to the hospital that day for a change in mental status. The DON confirmed that the resident had orders dated 1/16/26 for OT, PT, and speech therapy evaluations, which were acknowledged by the primary care physician on 1/21/26, and that these ordered evaluations were not completed as directed by the physician.
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