Visiting Nurse Home and Hospice

The Agency failed to conduct a full-scale exercise that is a community or facility based functional exercise, a mock disaster drill, or a tabletop exercise to test the emergency plan vulnerabilities identified in the hazard assessment conducted by the facility or analyze the Agency’s response to…

The Home Health Agency (HHA)failed to ensure that skilled nursing services are provided in accordance with the HHA’s policies and procedures, for 1 of 2 Patient’s reviewed relative to weekly measurements of pressure wounds, Patient ID #1. Findings are as follows: Review of the agency policy, titled…

The agency failed to complete a comprehensive assessment which includes a review of all medications which the patient is currently taking for 1 of 1 sample patients with a reported medication error (Patient ID #1).

The agency failed to assure that the patient’s clinical record identifies all medication the patient is currently taking for 4 of 4 sample patients, Patient’s ID #’s 1,2,3, and 6, reviewed during home visits.

The agency failed to assure coordination of all services, for 1 of 1 patient with a speech therapy consult, patient ID # 6. Findings are as follows: Review of the resumption of care, physicians’ orders, dated 3/4/2022, states “speech therapy to evaluate to determine the type, severity and prognosis…

The agency failed to integrate services for 1 of 1 patient, patient ID # 1 relative to blood work for Coumadin.