The Department of Health’s District I home health services program, which covers nine counties in northwest Mississippi, has had a history of policy compliance and management problems. Despite repeated unsatisfactory evaluation reports of the district’s home health program, the State Health Officer, the District I Director, the District I Administrator, and the District I Home Health Supervisor have not taken aggressive corrective action. As a result, the District I program has uncorrected problems in its patient care and quality assurance programs. In addition, district managers have not followed professionally accepted personnel management practices.
The district’s Region B home health agency conducted a mass discharge of patients in the summer of 1991 which did not comply with departmental policies and may have left patients without arrangements for further health care.
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