Musc Health at Home Kershaw

The findings are: Cross Reference to G 0578: The home health agency(HHA) failed to ensure its staff for multiple health disciplines notified the physician of missed patient visits for 12 of 17 patient charts reviewed for care and services.

The home health agency(HHA) failed to ensure its staff notified the physician of missed visits for 12 of 17 patient charts reviewed for care and services.

The home health agency failed to ensure its staff followed accepted principles of infection control in the provision of patient care for 2 of 3 Registered Nurses (RN) who failed to perform hand hygiene after patient contact, failed to change gloves, failed to maintain clean areas separate from…

The home health agency failed to complete physician ordered Skilled Nurse(SN) visits for a patient patient receiving Chemo Therapy and failed to show documentation of coordination of services with the Oncology Agent administering the Chemo Therapy and/or with the patient's physician to ensure that…

The home health aide failed to follow the aide plan of care for the patient to provide safe care during a bed bath during observations of 1 of 1 home health aide during a home visit.

The home health agency's administrator failed to ensure that there was no commingling of its staff with its sister hospice agency related to supervision of its home health aides, development of the home health plan of care for its home health patients, and management and commingling of the home…