Keller Home Care

The home health agency failed to ensure the skilled nurse (SN) performed hand hygiene (HH) and maintained sterile technique during peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) line dressing change in accordance with the agency's policy.

The agency failed to ensure medications were reconciled in four of seven home visits (HV) conducted.

The home health agency failed to ensure physician orders for weekly site care to a PICC (peripherally inserted central catheter) line were followed.

The agency failed to ensure staff followed the policy for hand hygiene and dress code.

The agency failed to ensure staff reconciled medications in 3 of 7 active MRs reviewed, including Home Visit (HV) # 2, HV # 3, and MR # 3, and had the potential to negatively affect all patients receiving services by this agency.

The agency failed to ensure all physician orders included the frequency of wound care, and route of oxygen administration.

The agency failed to ensure the staff: 1. Documented accurate assessments of the patients ability to manage injectable medications per agency policy.

The agency failed to ensure: 1. The Skilled Nurse (SN) documented in the MR obtaining an ordered urine specimen for UA/CS (urinalysis/culture and sensitivity), including the date and time of collection, method utilized to obtain the specimen, color and clarity of the urine obtained, the patient's…

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