K & K Home Health Care, Inc

An organization that delivers skilled nursing and other therapeutics service to a patient at home) failed to ensure the Condition of Participation (conditions that health care organizations must meet in order to begin and continue participating in the Medicare and Medicaid programs) regarding…

The HHA failed to ensure written information regarding the patient’s care was present for one of thirteen sampled patients (Patient 13).

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to ensure sixteen (16) of twenty-one (21) staff were directly hired by the HHA.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to ensure patient care records were complete and authenticated by the staff involved with the care provided for eleven of thirteen sampled patients (Patient 2, Patient 3, Patient 4, Patient 5, Patient 6, Patient 7, Patient 8, Patient 9, Patient 10, Patient 12…

Failed to ensure all care orders were transcribed and carried out for five of thirteen sample patients (Patient 2, Patient 3, Patient 8, Patient 9, and Patient 11).

The HHA failed to ensure written information regarding the patient’s medication regimen was present for one of thirteen sampled patients (Patient 13).

Failed to ensure three of thirteen sampled patients (Patient 1, Patient 8, and Patient 9) clinical records included all the records of the care and services being provided.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to include the contact information for the primary practitioner in the clinical record for four of thirteen sampled patients (Patient 2, Patient 3, Patient 4, and Patient 5) This deficient practice had the potential to result in lack of coordination and…

Failed to send all necessary discharge summary (a clinical document that provides a comprehensive overview of a patient's entire hospital stay or treatment period), information to the primary care practitioner within 5 days of discharge for one of thirteen sampled patients (Patient 2).