2020-2024 Form

Instructions and help about Section 1 An Agency's Request For An Initial Licensure Survey

today I've decided to talk about how you can prepare for a Home Care Agency survey dhsr calls it a survey we may call it an audit so over the last several weeks I've been working with um several clients that have asked to ask me to come in to look at their operations to see how things are going and to give them some suggestions as to how they can be better prepared for a survey or an audit so that's what I wanted to do with you all today it's all about being organized so what you can expect is that most of the time the survey will be unannounced even if it's a regular survey they will not let you know that they're coming and also you will often get a survey if the individuals are coming to work a complaint say one of your clients or one of your employees called in a complaint and dhsr comes to work that complaint they'll come and look into that situation and then they may go ahead and do an audit as well I've seen that happen so when the surveyor comes what I've noticed that they've do