Aaron Home Health Care Services, Inc.

This is a continuing deficiency cited at E 0039 during survey dated 10/21/2021. Based on record review and interview, the agency failed to conduct an exercise to test the emergency plan or to activate the plan after an actual natural or man-made emergency annually, for two (2022 and 2023) of three…

The agency failed to conduct and document PIP(s) annually, for two (2023 and 2024) of two years reviewed for PIP(s), that reflected the scope, complexity and past performance of the agency's services and operations.

The agency failed to maintain a clinical record that contained plans of care and/or clinical notes for the patients’ most recent home health admission for nine (Patients # 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 11) of nine discharge records reviewed, in that: the agency failed to include plans of care and/or…

The agency failed to complete a discharge summary and failed to send a completed discharge/transfer summary to the primary care practitioner who was to be responsible to provide care and services to the patient after discharge/transfer from the HHA for nine (Patients # 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and…

The agency failed to maintain documentation of exercises/activations of its emergency preparedness plan in 2 (2019,2021) of 3 years requested for review.

The agency failed to include all necessary medical information in the discharge summary in 4 (#1, #2, #3, and #4) of 4 discharged patient records reviewed, the discharge summary did not include a list of medications that the patients were taking at the time of discharge.