Generations Home Health

The agency failed to ensure a Registered Nurse provided complete written patient care instructions for the home health aide in one (1) of three (3) applicable records reviewed in the survey sample.

The agency failed to ensure the patient received proper written notice, in advance of a specific service being furnished in advance of the HHA reducing or terminating on-going care.

The agency failed to ensure accurate and complete medication lists were documented in four (4) of (21) clinical records reviewed in the survey sample (Clinical record #'s 3, 5, 8 and 9).

The agency staff failed to ensure a plan of care to contained the specific location of a wound and the order of a PICC (catheter inserted through a peripheral vein to deliver medications) line with it's routine maintenance as ordered by the physician for one (1) of three (3) patients in the survey…

The agency failed to send the patient's discharge summary to the primary care physician or primary care practitioner within 5 business days from the date of the final visit and failed to send the patient's transfer summary within 2 business days of becoming aware of an unplanned transfer for seven…