Amedisys Home Health of Camden

The facility failed to ensure the patients(s) care conform to the physician(s) orders for 3/17 records reviewed which included missed visits by the staff.

The home health agency (hha) failed to admit two of 9 patients (Patient #6 and Patient #9) within 48 hours of the physician referral and failed to notify the physician of the delay in patient's Start of Care (SOC).

The home health agency (hha) failed to update the patient's medication profile for 3 of 7 applicable patients.

The HHA failed to include contact information for the staff for use during an emergency.

The Home Health Agency's(HHA) Emergency Preparedness Program(EPP), review of the HHA's personnel files, and interview, the HHA had no documentation of training of 3 of 7 staff on the HHA's EPP.

The HHA had no documentation that the HHA participated in a community- based or individual facility-based full scale exercise and failed to analyze the HHA's response.

The Home Health Agency Skilled Nurse (SN) failed to document an assessment of the patient's wound for measurement for two of two patients reviewed for care and services for wounds.

The home health agency failed to ensure care was delivered per physician ordered home visits for 2 of 17 patient chart reviewed for missed visits by health care staff.

The home health staff failed to ensure the agency's medication administration record (mar) was updated to accurately correspond to the patient's medications in the home for 3 of 7 patients visited in the home setting.