Appl Orchard Inc

The home health agency failed to ensure all skilled professional staff, assumed the responsibility to: Ensure all medications written, on the patient's plan of care, were clarified and written with patient-specific orders, inclusive of instructions, as ordered by the physician, for 2 of 13 sampled…

The agency failed to ensure the medical, nursing and social needs of each patient was maintained, to obtain the patient's optimal state of health, for 7 of 13 sampled Patients (P) P1-5, P7 and P9. All patients had the potential to be affected by this deficient practice placing the patients at risk…

The agency failed to ensure each patient's plan of care was accurate and individualized by failing to ensure all medications written on each patient's plan of care was written with the patient-specific medication dosage, ordered by the physician, for 1 of 13 sampled Patients (P), (P1).