John Muir Home Health Services

The agency failed to do accurate comprehensive assessment, create comprehensive care plan and provide appropriate medical supplies for one of three sampled patients (Patient 1), when the agency's staff did not do a comprehensive assessment correctly to develop a care plan that included Patient 1's…

The agency failed to develop a comprehensive care plan and provide appropriate care for one of three sampled patients (Patient 1), when the agency did not address Patient 1's Genitourinary disease in Patient 1's care plan, and did not provide medically necessary supply of straight urinary catheters…

The home health agency did not coordinate care for a change in condition for one of 17 sampled patients (Patient 8).

The Home Health agency's Infection Control Program plan did not include surveillance (close and continuous observation), identification, investigation, and coordination of care for patients with identified infections and communicable diseases.

The home health agency did not notify the physician for changes in condition for 3 of 3 randomly sampled patients (Patients 18, 19, and 20).

The agency staff did not include relevant patient information in the visit notes for one of 17 sampled patients (Patient 9) when Patient 9's visit note reflected past information and did not include current clinical status.