Rx Staffing and Home Care

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to ensure the individualized plan of care (POC) was signed by a physician within 30 days of the patient's start of care for two of 17 sampled patients (Patients 9 and Patient 16).

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to ensure the medication profile was reviewed for 1 of 7 sampled patients (Patient 7) who received home visits.

The facility failed to have the individualized plan of care signed by a doctor within 30 days for 6 of 18 sampled patients (Patient's 4, 11, 14, 15, 16, and 18).

The agency failed to obtain physician's orders before providing services for one of 18 sampled patients (Patient 5), who had a subrapubic catheter (a flexible tube inserted into patient's bladder through a small cut in the abdomen to drain urine), when there was no order regarding monitoring the…

The agency failed to ensure occupational therapy (OT) services ordered by a physician and included in the Plan of Care (POC) were completed in a timely manner for one of 18 sampled patients (Patient 10).

The agency failed to ensure documentation was completed within 24 hours as per their policy and procedures (P & P).

The agency failed to follow a written plan of care (POC) established by a physician for 1 of 3 sampled patients (Patient A) when an Occupational Therapy (OT) assessment was not competed as ordered.

The agency failed to ensure treatments were administered by agency staff as ordered by the physician for 1 of 3 sampled patients (Patient A).