Good Samaritan Home Health of Central Kansas

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to notify the patient and physician of their desire to discontinue services for cause prior to discharging the patient for 2 (Patient 1 & 3) of 10 discharged records reviewed.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to make efforts to resolve patient problems, behaviors and complaints prior to discharging the patient for 2 (Patient 1 & 3) of 10 discharged records reviewed.

The agency failed to provide the patient with contact number and name of other home health agency that might be able to provide services to the patient after discharge for 2 (Patient 1 & 3) of 10 discharged patients.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to document efforts made to resolve patient problems, behaviors and complaints in the patient record for 2 (Patient 1 & 3) of 10 records reviewed.

The home health agency (HHA) failed to ensure patients' plans of care (POCs - individualized and comprehensive plans that include diagnoses, medications, and interventions that guide the staff in providing patient care) included all pertinent diagnoses for 3 (Patients 2, 4, and 5) of 13 patients…

The home health agency (HHA) failed to provide services as ordered by a physician.

The home health agency (HHA) failed to assess the patient's medication regimen for 1 (Patient 6) of 5 patients with whom home visits were attended by the surveyor.

The home health agency (HHA) failed to assess vital signs (clinical measurements of pulse, temperature, respiratory rate, and blood pressure) as ordered on the patients' Plans of Care (POCs) for 1 (Patient 1) of 13 sampled patients whose clinical records were reviewed.

The home health agency failed to ensure all skilled professional staff, assumed the responsibility to: Ensure all medications for a patient living in an assisted-living facility were accurate, for one of seven sampled patient, (Patient 2); Ensure the physical therapist assistants and the…

The agency failed to ensure the contents of each clinical note was accurate and completed as required, by failing to ensure all Electronically Signed Signature Dates corresponded to the date of the actual Skilled Nurse (SN) nursing visit documents for five of seven sampled patients, (Patient 2, 3…

The home health agency failed to ensure all the medications were transcribed and administered to a patient as ordered by the physician without discrepancies and in accordance to the Home Health Agency Medication Management Policy & Procedure, for one of seven sampled (Patients 2).

The agency failed to ensure all services, involving medication orders of a patient, living in an assisted-living facility, were integrated between the home health agency and the assisted-living facility nursing staff caring for the patient for one of seven sampled patients, (Patient 2).