Amazing Care Home Health Services LLC

The home health agency (HHA) failed to provide necessary oversight and supervision of the HHA.

The home health agency (HHA) failed to ensure that they could adequately meet the needs of the patients they accepted for care, failed to provide care that followed a written plan of care, and failed to notify the physician of missed visits.

The home health agency failed to ensure that patient clinical records contained pertinent past and current findings in accordance with accepted professional standards.

The home health agency (HHA) did not have a governing body (GB) that had assumed responsibility for the overall operation of the agency.

The administrator could not provide documented evidence that 6 of 7 registered nurses (RN) were qualified and received adequate education and evaluation to perform their job responsibilities for intravenous (IV) therapy.

The home health agency did not ensure minutes of case conferences established effective interchange, reporting, and coordination of patient care.

Home health agency did not ensure that they could adequately meet the needs of patients admitted to service for 9 of 16 sampled patients.

The home health agency did not notify the physician of missed visits, or changes to the plan of care, for 9 of 16 patients.

The agency did not ensure that patients had an individualized plan of care containing all required elements, based on an assessment of their needs, for 10 of 16 sampled patients.

The home health agency could not provide documented evidence that 6 of 7 registered nurses (RN) were qualified and competent to provide intravenous (IV) therapy to their patients.

The agency skilled nurse did not coordinate services and document communication and inform other personnel of changes in the patient's condition and needs for 2 of 16 patients.

The home health agency (HHA) did not ensure that performance reviews were completed for 1 of 4 home health aides who had been employeed at the agency for more than 12 months.

The agency did not ensure that 4 of 4 home health aides, who had been employeed at the agency for at least a year, had received at least 12 hours of in-service training during the prior 12 month period.

The DON agreed that the current forms they were using for their competency evaluations did not meet the requirements for documenting how the aides were evauated.

The home health agency did not appropriately provide aide supervisory visits for 1 out of 16 patients who had aide services.

The registered nurse (RN) did not conduct supervisory visits of the home health aide at least every 60 days for 2 of 2 patients receiving aide-only services and had been on service longer than 60 days.

The home health agency did not maintain clinical records which contained pertinent past and current findings in accordance with accepted professional standards.

For 16 of 16 patients, the home health agency did not complete a thorough review and update all medications each patient was taking to identify potential adverse effects, drug reactions, ineffective drug therapy, significant side effects, significant drug interactions, duplicate drug therapy, or…