Bellcoa Home Health Service Inc

The Agency failed to encode and electronically transmit each completed OASIS assessment to the CMS system within 30 days of completing the assessment of the patient for 20 of 782 assessments processed for the time-period reviewed of 04/25/2024 to 04/25/2024. This failure resulted in quality data…

The agency failed to follow acceptable standards of practice to prevent the transmission of infections in 3 out of 3 patients (Client 1, Client 2, and Client 5) observed during home visits.

The agency failed to include all skilled professionals in their QAPI meetings in 6 out of 6 QAPI meetings (7/15/2022, 1/11/2023, 07/07/23, 12/22/23, 7/5/24, 12/20/24) in the 3 years reviewed (20222, 2023, and 2024).

The agency failed to enforce its discharge planning process to provide a patient or patient’s responsible party with written notice of its intent to discharge the patient for 2 of 2 discharged patients (Patient #7 and #8) who were discharged for goals met.

The agency failed to enforce a policy to ensure that the QAPI committee met at least twice a year for two of two years reviewed (2020 and 2021).