Libbys Home Health Care

The HHA failed to provide written information in three (Patients # 1, 2 and 3) of three patients who received a home visit.

The agency failed to develop and maintain an emergency preparedness plan that was based on and included a documented, facility-based, and community-based risk assessment, utilizing an all-hazards approach in three (2019, 2020 and 2021) of three years.

The HHA's governing body failed to ensure that an ongoing program for quality improvement and patient safety was implemented and maintained; that the HHA‐wide QAPI efforts addressed priorities for improved quality of care and patient safety; that all improvement actions were evaluated for…

The agency failed to maintain a coordinated agency-wide program for the surveillance, identification, prevention, control, and investigation of infectious and communicable diseases that was an integral part of the HHA's QAPI program.

This is a continuing deficiency cited at G 0422 at survey dated 07/02/2019. Based on observation, interview and record review, the agency failed to provide written notice of the HHA's transfer and discharge policies to a patient or selected representative within four business days of the initial…

The agency failed to advise patients of the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of federally funded and state-funded entities that service the area where the patient resided, in three (Patients # 4, 5 and 8) of three patients who received home visits.

This is a continuing deficiency cited at G 0574 at survey dated 07/02/2019. Based on record review and interview in seven (Patients #1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8) of seven active records with the current POC reviewed, the agency failed to develop POC’s that covered all the pertinent elements.

This is a continuing deficiency cited at G 0614 at survey dated 07/02/2019. Based on records review, observation, and interview, the HHA failed to ensure that a written visit schedule was provided to the patient that was consistent with the patient's most current plan of care, in three (Patients #…