#10 [TIED]: Content of Comprehensive Assessment: 42 CFR 418.54(c)(7), TAG 0531

The comprehensive assessment failed to include an initial bereavement assessment of the needs of the patient's family and other individuals focusing on the social, spiritual, and cultural factors that may impact their ability to cope with the patient's death and to be considered in the bereavement plan of care.

The hospice failed to ensure the comprehensive assessment included an initial bereavement assessment of the patient's daughter for coping with the patient's death.