Progressive Home Health & Hospice

Agency (HHA) failed to review and update the Emergency Preparedness Plan and the Hazard Risk Analysis at least every 2 years.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to develop and maintain an emergency preparedness plan that includes a process for cooperation and collaboration with local, tribal, regional, State, and Federal emergency preparedness officials' efforts to maintain an integrated response during a disaster or…

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to review and update policies and procedures at least every 2 years.

The Home Health agency (HHA) failed to conduct or participate in exercises to test the Emergency Preparedness Plan (EPP).

The agency failed to conduct an initial assessment visit within 48 hours after receiving a referral to provide services for 5 (Patients 4, 8, 10, 11, and 13) of 13 patients reviewed.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to ensure the completion of supervisory visits for 3 (Patient 4, Patient 5 and Patient 7) of 13 sample patients reviewed.

The home health agency (HHA) failed to send a transfer summary to the facility where the patient was receiving in-patient health care services for 2 of 2 (Patient 6 & 11) transferred patients of the 13 sample patients.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to ensure the requirements of the Condition of Participation for Comprehensive Assessment of Patients were met as evidenced by failure to ensure the assessment was updated and revised as frequently as the patient's condition warranted due to a major decline or…

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to meet the requirements of the Condition of Participation for Infection Prevention and Control as evidenced by failure to demonstrate accepted standards of practice to prevent the transmission of infections.

The home health agency (HHA) failed to ensure the Registered Nurse (RN) assessed wounds in accordance with agency policy, notified the physician of changes in the status of the wound, and revised the care plan for 2 of 2 patients reviewed with wounds (Patient 2 and Patient 16).

The home health agency (HHA) failed to ensure staff conformed with signed physician orders identified in the plan of care by failing to maintain the visit frequency and/or perform care as ordered by the physician for 7 of 17 patients (Patient 2, Patient 7, Patient 9, Patient 10, Patient 11, Patient…

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to ensure services were provided in accordance with current clinical practice guidelines, accepted professional standards of practice, and agency policy.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to ensure each home health aide care plan included written patient care instructions for a home health aide prepared by the registered nurse or other appropriate skilled professional.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to ensure the clinician documented that a medication review was completed for 2 of 17 sampled patients (Patient 16 and Patient 17).

The home health agency (HHA) failed to complete a resumption of care assessment within 48 hours of return home following an inpatient hospital stay for 1 of 17 patients (Patient 17).

The home health agency (HHA) failed to ensure the relevant physician was notified of changes in the patient's condition or needs that suggest that outcomes are not being achieved and/or that the plan of care should be altered.