Alliant Home Health Care Services

The home health agency (HHA) failed to develop a policies and procedures to address COVID-19 (an acute respiratory illness) and failed to have all staff being fit tested for N 95 respirator.

The home health agency (HHA) failed to maintain an accurate, current medication profile for one of seven sampled patients (Patient 6).

The license nurse failed to obtain an order for a tracheostomy (surgically created hole in the trachea that provides an alternative airway for breathing) tube for one out of seven sampled patients (Patient 1).

The Home Health agency (HHA) failed to meet the Condition of Participation for Establishment of The Emergency Program as follows: 1. The HHA failed to develop and maintain an emergency preparedness plan that is reviewed and updated at least every two years.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) agency failed to meet the Condition of Participation for Patient Rights when: 1. The agency failed to provide safety and supervision to prevent harm and severe injuries up to death to one of three sampled patients,(Patient 1).

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to develop and maintain an emergency preparedness plan that had been reviewed and updated at least every two years.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to develop and maintain an emergency preparedness training to all staff.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to conduct exercises to test the agency's emergency plan annually to ensure all staff were prepared of their duties in the event of an emergency or a disaster.

The home health agency (HHA) failed to review the current Plan of Care for one of three patients (Patient 2).

The agency failed to comply with the physician's orders for one of 3 patients (Patient 3) when the oxygen saturation level was not checked as ordered.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to ensure one of three sampled patients (Patient 1) was free from neglect from Licensed Vocational Nurse 1 (LVN 1) by failing to: Ensure LVN 1 did not leave Patient 1's house during assigned work hours on 5/6/2021. LVN 1 was assigned to provide care to Patient 1…

The facility failed to provide the toll-free home health telephone hot line to one of three sampled patients, (Patient 2).

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to immediately report to the appropriate authorities an incident of neglect that resulted to a patient's death for one of three sampled patients (Patient 1).

The home health agency (HHA) failed to: 1. Ensure medication orders were reviewed and administered as per physician's order for one of three sampled patients (Patient 2).

The agency failed to ensure that monthly skilled nurse supervisory visit (to determine if the staff are following the care plan, if the care plan is meeting the patient's needs, if the patient/caregiver is satisfied with the care plan and the performance of the staff) for a Licensed Vocational…

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to: a.