Potomac Family Planning Center

Health Violations

• Administrator failed to protect the clinical record information from loss or misuse.
• Failure to properly label and handle medications. Improperly labeled multi-dose meds. Did not secure meds OR prescription pads. Repeated deficiencies.
• Expired Medications and supplies. Repeated deficiencies.
• Failure to adopt, follow, and or periodically review health and safety protocols.
• Failed to ensure proper physician credentialing. No evidence of documentation of data provided by the National Practitioner Data Bank.
• HIPAA breach:Failure to protect clinic records from loss or misuse. Medical records are “never locked” and findings were that all files are unsecured.
• Failure to ensure a safe and sanitary environment. The facility was filthy and dusty, administrator stated she was “unaware”. Stained and discolored “sterile” packaging.
• Sharps discarded in regular trash cans with no lids.
• Surgical beds had multiple cracks and tears making it unable to be disinfected, allowing cross-contamination between patients.
• Failure to train, comply with and ensure infection control standards. The inspection found 103 peel packs of surgical tools that were improperly sanitized. Staff admitted to not knowing they were supposed to do it differently. Repeated deficiency.
• Failure to purchase and maintain all required emergency equipment.
• Failure to perform a medical history or physical examination of patients before surgical procedures are done. Physicians were not checking medical histories OR examining patients before abortions. Putting patients at risk for allergic reactions or death from anesthesia.
• Failure to conduct counts of controlled medications. The facility had not counted supposedly secured narcotics since 2012.
• No policies or procedures in place for medication administration. There was no documentation of physicians orders for med administration, including IV fluids or medications. It appeared anyone could decide to give any medication to any patient at any time. Due to no documentation, patients appeared to receive no medications when they had received IV sedation and other meds throughout their procedures. All undocumented. 
• Lab failed to ensure that the quality control materials used in the lab were not used after the expiration date.