Elara Caring

The Agency failed to ensure the plan of care included appropriate interventions, teaching and reportable parameters for 3 (MR #1, #2, and #3) of 3 patients who required wound care for pressure ulcers, from a total of 3 sampled records reviewed, resulting in the patient not receiving needed care and…

The Agency failed to ensure that services were provided as ordered and in accordance with the physician's orders for 2 (MR's #3, #2) of 3 patients who required wound care for treatment of pressure ulcers, from a total of 3 sampled records reviewed, resulting in the potential for worsening of wounds…

The agency failed to ensure the physician was notified of changes in the patient's condition in 1 of 1 record reviewed (MR#2), of a total of 4 records reviewed, in which the patient's colostomy supplies were depleted and feces was allowed to drain into an open abdominal wound, resulting in a poor…

The agency failed to ensure the physician was notified of changes in the patient's condition in 1 of 1 record reviewed (MR#2) in which the patient's colostomy supplies were depleted and feces was allowed to drain into an open abdominal wound, resulting in a poor patient outcome (hospitalization)…

The agency failed to ensure professional staff communicated with all of the physicians involved in the patient's colostomy and wound care provided in 1 of 1 record reviewed (MR#2) in which the patient failed to receive adequate colostomy care, wound care and supplies, resulting in a poor patient…

The agency failed to ensure staff coordinated the provision of colostomy care for 1 of 1 record reviewed (MR#2) in which the patient failed to receive adequate colostomy supplies of a total of 4 records reviewed, resulting in a poor patient outcome (hospitalization) for this one patient.