Alabama Homecare Hamilton

The agency failed to ensure staff performed hand hygiene per agency policy.

The agency failed to keep the medication profile current.

The agency failed to coordinate care with the physician to ensure the physician order for the patient to perform daily blood glucose testing was followed.

The agency failed to ensure staff reconciled medications for 3 of 3 Home Visits (HV) conducted.

The agency failed to ensure a diabetic patient received education after low blood sugar in the home required emergency medical treatment at the hospital.

The agency staff failed to: 1. Follow their protocol for medication preparation and administration.

The agency failed to ensure medications were reconciled in 2 of 4 home visit (HV) records.

The agency staff failed to ensure oxygen tanks in the home were properly stored.

The agency failed to ensure teaching and education was provided to the patient and/or caregiver in 1 of 10 records reviewed, affecting MR # 1 and had the potential to affect all patients served by the agency.