Accxell Home Health Agency

The home health agency failed to coordinate with the certified home health aides to ensure home visits were provided following the resumption of care, to one of four sampled patients, Patient 1. This failure had the potential that patients' activities of daily living will not be provided by the…

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to meet the Condition of Participation for Comprehensive Assessment of Patients as follows: 1. The HHA nursing staff failed to ensure patients on pain management as identified in the plan of care, completed the comprehensive assessment to control pain that…

The home health agency (HHA) failed to ensure the Conditions of Participation for Infection Prevention and Control were met as follows: 1. The Home Health agency (HHA) failed to follow accepted standards of practice to prevent the transmission of infections and communicable diseases for one of 7…

The home health agency (HHA) failed to ensure patients on pain management as identified in the plan of care completed the comprehensive assessment to control pain that includes medication, character and location of pain, pain level before intervention, and pain level after intervention for 3 of 7…

The Home Health agency (HHA) failed to follow accepted standards of practice to prevent the transmission of infections and communicable diseases for one of 7 sample patients (Patient 4).

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to develop procedure to identify the infection and risks of infection of the patients, to prevent and control the transmission of infectious and communicable disease, specific to the care and services provided, to one of four sampled patients (Patient 4).

The home health agency failed to ensure the security of patient records at all times and the privacy of information contained on those records by leaving open boxes with patient medical records exposed near the agency’s entrance door.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to conduct a comprehensive assessment to clearly demonstrate continuing needs for home health services for three of 7 sampled patients.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to ensure written information of the medications including the action and side effects the patients were taking were provided to the patient/caregiver for two of 7 sampled patients (Patient 4, and 5).