Evercare Home Health, Inc

The home health agency (HHA) failed to ensure the emergency preparedness (EP, the steps taken to make sure patients and staffs are safe before, during and after an emergency or natural disaster) plan/drill for field staff was completed on an annual basis.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to maintain an effective, ongoing, data-driven quality assessment and performance improvement program (QAPI).

The home health agency (HHA) failed to follow professional standards of practice for infection control by failing to failed to maintain and monitor expiry dates of their medical supplies in the office.

The agency failed to maintain training for their certified home health aide (CHHA) staff.

The Home health Agency (HHA) failed to ensure and safeguard Protected Health Information (PHI) against loss or unauthorized use, when the agency’s storage room was shared with another home health agency.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to maintain an accurate, and current medication profile for 3 of 7 patients (Patients 1, 2 and 3).

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to coordinate care and services of all physicians to meet the need of one of seven sampled patients ( Patient 1).

The agency failed to ensure visits were conducted for one of 7 sampled patients (Patient 4) . This deficient practice resulted in the patient not receiving the required visit and resulted in a lack of care.