Excelacare Home Health

The home health agency (HHA) failed to ensure staff practiced hand hygiene in accordance with policy as observed during two (Patient (P) 4, P2) of three home visits conducted on 11/01/22. This deficient practice had the potential to affect the current 155 patients and any future patient admitted…

The home health agency (HHA) failed to ensure the agency's COVID-19 vaccination policy contained all the required content.

The home health agency (HHA) failed to ensure staff performed the initial assessment within 48 hours of the referral or discharge from the hospital for six (Patient (P) 1, P3, P4, P5, P6, P7) of 10 patient records reviewed.

The home health agency (HHA) failed to ensure a copy of each patient's medication profile was in the home and kept current with the medications the patient was taking as observed during three of three patient (Patient (P) 4, P2, P1) home visits conducted from a sample of 10 patients.

The home health agency (HHA) failed to ensure services were provided as ordered by the physician in the patient's plan of care (POC) for four (Patient (P) 1, P4, P8, P9) of ten sampled patients.

The home health agency (HHA) failed to ensure the physician was notified of missed visits for three (Patient (P) 1, P4, P9) of 10 sampled patients.

The facility failed to ensure its staff complied with acceptable infection control practices by not using clean bag technique in 1(P#1) of 2(P#1,P#3) patients reviewed.

The facility failed to document wound assessments which includes measurements of wounds for 1 (P#8) of 8 (P#1-P#8) patients sampled.

The facility failed to complete a comprehensive assessment at discharge of 1(P#1) of 2(P#1, P#3) patients reviewed.