Allsupreme Home Care Inc

The home health agency (HHA) failed to ensure the Conditions of Participation for Infection Prevention and Control were met as follows: 1. The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to ensure a finger stick device was not shared with other patients for one of 13 sample patients.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to follow the Plan of Care (POC) and notify the physician regarding elevated blood pressure readings for one of 13 sample patients (Patients 8).

The Home Health agency (HHA) failed to follow accepted standards of practice to prevent the possible transmission of infections and communicable diseases for one of 13 sample patients (Patient 2).

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to develop a method for identifying infectious and communicable disease problems caused by sharing finger stick devices used to monitor blood sugar levels for one of 13 sampled patients.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to conduct a complete comprehensive assessment for Medicare patients, to determine eligibility for the Medicare home health benefit, including homebound status for one of 11 sampled patients (Patient 10).

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to assess the patient's continuing need for home care for one of 11 sampled patients.

The home health agency (HHA) staff failed to review all the medications and update the medication profile with currently used medications for two of 13 sampled patients (Patient 1 and 2).

The home health agency (HHA) failed to communicate a change in the health status with the physician for one of 11 sample patients (Patients 10 ).

The home health agency (HHA) failed to provide skilled nursing services as ordered by the physician in the plan of care for one of 13 sample patients.

The home health agency's (HHA) skilled nurse failed to communicate with the physician about not having a glucometer, fingerstick device to monitoring the blood sugar level for one of 13 sample patients (Patient 2) diagnosed with diabetes mellitus.