Angels Care Home Health of the Emerald Coast

The agency failed to ensure the Condition of Participation for Care Planning, Coordination, Quality of Care requirement was met by failing to develop and update the plan of care to identify patient specific, measurable outcomes and goals, and failed to provide the care in accordance with the…

The home health agency failed to provide the documented evidence and an operational demonstration that they had developed, implement, evaluated, and maintained an effective, ongoing, agency-wide, data-driven quality assurance performance improvement (QAPI) program.

The agency failed to develop and update individualized plan of care (POC) that identifies patient-specific measurable outcomes and goals for 4 of 10 active patient records reviewed, and failed to provide care in accordance with the written plan POC for 4 of 10 sampled patients.

The facility failed to identify an opportunity to improve patient health outcomes by recognizing trends in the patient’s extended length of stay, and failed to identify concerns with the documentation in the patient’s medical record during chart audits.

The home health agency failed to ensure the duration of visits to be made for 1 of 13 sampled patients (#6).

The home health agency failed to send a completed discharge summary to the primary care provider or other health care professional who will be responsible for providing care and services to the patient after discharge from the home health agency within 5 business days of the patient’s discharge for…