Heritage Healthcare of Hammond: Staffing Data Gap - LA
When federal inspectors walked into the facility on the morning of May 18, 2025, the Daily Staffing Reporting Form on the Hall A bulletin board was dated May 16. That was a Friday. It was now Sunday. The form listed staffing levels that were two days old.
The assistant director of nursing, identified in inspection records as S4ADON, explained her system plainly. She said she was responsible for posting nurse staffing data Monday through Friday. On Fridays, she filled out forms intended to cover Saturday, Sunday, and Monday in a single sitting. She told inspectors there were no staff assigned on weekends to update the forms. Then she said she was not aware weekend updates were required.
The nursing supervisor and a second assistant director of nursing, identified as S2RNSUP and S3ADON, confirmed the situation when inspectors brought them to the bulletin board. Both acknowledged the posted form was dated May 16. Both said S4ADON was the person responsible for keeping the board current.
The administrator, S1ADM, was also walked to the bulletin board. She looked at the form. She confirmed the date.
The staffing board is not a formality. It is the mechanism by which 82 residents and their families can see, on any given day, how many nurses and aides are actually working their floor. When that number is two days old, a family visiting on a Sunday has no accurate way to know whether the facility is adequately staffed that morning, or whether it is running short. The form on the wall answers a question with information from a different day.
What the inspection uncovered was not a one-time oversight. The assistant director of nursing described a standing practice, one she had built into her weekly routine. She prepared three days of forms at once because there was no one else to do it and, by her own account, because she believed that was acceptable. The nursing supervisor and the administrator, when confronted with the evidence, offered no indication that either had previously noticed or raised the problem.
The facility houses 82 residents. The violation was cited at a level of potential for minimal harm, the lowest tier in the federal deficiency scale. No resident was identified as having been directly harmed by the outdated posting. But the transparency that staffing disclosure is meant to provide, the ability of a resident's daughter or son to walk in on a Saturday and know what kind of day the staff is having, was not available at Heritage Healthcare of Hammond on the weekends. It had not been, apparently, for some time.
The assistant director of nursing said she did not know it was required. The administrator confirmed the date on the form and said nothing more that inspectors recorded.
The inspection was completed May 21, 2025.
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Heritage Healthcare of Hammond in HAMMOND, LA was cited for violations during a health inspection on May 21, 2025.
The form listed staffing levels that were two days old.
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