Survey date 2021-10-01 - complaint
ADVANCED DIRECTIVES 6) Advance directives. (a) Each nursing home licensee must have written policies and procedures, which delineate the nursing home's position with respect to the state law and rules relative to advance directives. The policies must not condition treatment or admission upon whether or not the individual has executed or waived an advance directive. In the event of conflict between the facility's policies and procedures and the individual's advance directive, provision should be made in accordance with Section 765.1105, F.S. (b) The facility's policy must include: 1. Providing each adult individual, at the time of the admission as a resident, with a copy of "Health Care Advance Directives - The Patient's Right to Decide," revised April 2006, which is hereby incorporated by reference and available at http://www.flrules.org/Gateway/reference.asp?No=Ref-06021, and from the Agency for Health Care Administration at http://www.floridahealthfinder.gov/reports-guides/advance-directives.aspx or with a copy of some other substantially similar document which is a written description of Florida's state law regarding advance directives; 2. Providing each adult individual, at the time of the admission as a resident, with written information concerning the nursing home's policies respecting advance directives; and, 3. Providing documentation of the existence of an advance directive be contained in the medical record. A nursing home licensee that is provided with the individual's advance directive must make the advance directive or a copy thereof a part of the individual's medical record.
No actual harm with a potential for minimal harm. The least severe class of CMS finding.
Corrected on 2021-10-30.