Amedisys Home Health Care

Staff interview it was determine the agency failed to coordinate care with all physician’s involved in the patient’s plan of care.

The agency failed to ensure the agency developed individualized emergency preparedness plans as part of the comprehensive assessment for seventeen of seventeen clinical records reviewed in the survey sample (clinical records #1-17).

The agency failed to follow accepted standards of practice to prevent the transmission of infections and communicable diseases.

The agency failed to provide a Home Health Change of Care Notice (HHCCN) to Medicare patients in advance of reducing/discontinuing services for two (2) of two (2) patients whose clinical records were reviewed in the survey sample for which an HHCCN was applicable (Clinical records #11 and 14).

The agency failed to include all the required elements on each patient's individualized plan of care.

The agency did not document advising the patient in advance of the disciplines that would furnish care and the frequency of the proposed visits for two (2) of seventeen (17) clinical records reviewed in the survey sample.

The agency failed to provide a Notice of Medicare Non-Coverage (NOMNC) to Medicare patients in advance of terminating care for two (2) of three (3) closed/discharge clinical records reviewed in the survey sample for which a NOMNC was applicable.

The agency failed to ensure the patient's medication profiles contained a review of all medications the patient is currently using in order to identify any potential adverse effects and drug reactions, including ineffective drug therapy, significant side effects, significant drug interactions…

The agency failed to ensure the Registered Nurse addressed all required elements for each home health aide supervisory visit conducted on or after 01/13/2018 for two (2) of two (2) clinical records reviewed in the survey sample with home health aide supervisory visits conducted on or after…