Covenant Care at Home

The agency failed to ensure the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS, a group of standard data elements home health agencies (HHAs) integrate into their comprehensive assessment, to collect and report quality data to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, (CMS)) data was transmitted…

The facility failed to practice appropriate infection prevention and control measures for two of seventeen sampled patients (Patient 3 and Patient 4), when: Hand hygiene (the process of cleaning hands with soap and water or using alcohol-based rubs (hand sanitizer) to prevent the spread of germs)…

The facility failed to ensure medication safety for four out of seventeen sampled patients (Patient 1, Patient 2, Patient 4, and Patient 5) when Patient 1, Patient 2, Patient 4, and Patient 5 had medications that were not verified during the comprehensive review.

The agency failed to ensure supervisory visits were completed every 14 days for three of seventeen sampled patients (Patient 3, Patient 6 and Patient 7) receiving Home Health Aide (HHA) services.

The agency failed to conduct an initial assessment within 48 hours of referral for three of 17 sampled patients (Patients, 1, 4 and 5).

The agency failed to administer occupational therapy (OT) as ordered by the physician for five of 17 sampled patients (Patients, 1, 2, 3, 6 and 11) when the OT service was discontinued without physician’s order.

The agency failed to coordinate patient’s need for durable medical supply (items that are disposable to help with certain medical conditions or illness) for one of seven sampled patients with home visits (Patient 6) when Patient 6’s caregiver was provided inappropriate gauze supply for Patient 6’s…