Amedisys Home Health of Myrtle Beach

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to ensure the timely submission of OASIS (Outcome and Assessment Information Set) to IQIES (Internet Quality and Improvement and Evaluation System).

The Home Health Agency (HHA)failed to ensure its nursing staff identified measurable goals on the patient’s Plan Of Care (POC) for 15 of 17 patient records reviewed.

The home health nurse failed to obtain wound care orders for a wound that had wound closure and then later reopened for one of one patient reviewed with a dehisced wound.

The home health agency failed to ensure its Emergency Preparedness Plan had both a primary and alternate means for communication during an emergency situation with the home health staff.

The home health agency(HHA) failed to ensure an accurate initial assessment by providing an incorrect address for one of seventeen patient charts reveiwed.

The home health agency failed to conform with physician orders for one of seventeen patient charts reviewed for care and services.

The home health agency failed to ensure that the home health staff were following accepted standards of practice to prevent the transmission of infections and communicable diseases for six of seven patients observed receiving care in the home.(Patient 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7) The findings are: Patient…

The home health agency failed to ensure that the home health aide was following the assignment and duties written by the registered nurse for one of seventeen patient charts reviewed for care and services.

The home health agency(HHA) failed to obtain referral orders for home health care that were signed by a physician for one of seventeen patient records reviewed for care and services.

The home health agency(HHA) failed to ensure that the patient's initial comprehensive assessment was completed within 5 days of the referral for two of seventeen patient charts reviewed for care and services.

The home health agency(HHA) failed to provide an accurate clinical record of the patient's prescriptions and non-prescription medications to monitor for side effects, significant drug interactions, duplicate drug therapy, and noncompliance with drug therapy for four of seventeen patient charts…

The home health agency failed to ensure that services and treatments were administered only as ordered by a physician for one of seventeen patient charts reviewed for care and services.

The home health agency failed to ensure that the home health staff provided accurate wound assessments to provide progress towards measurable goals for care provided to three of seventeen patient charts reviewed for care and services.

The home health agency failed to provide services that are ordered by the physician in the patient's plan of care for reporting glucose levels, reporting missed visits, and documenting vital signs for eight of seventeen patient charts reviewed for care and services.

The home health agency failed to ensure accurate clinical assessments for wounds to show documentation in progress towards measurable goals when preparing clinical notes for one of seventeen patient charts reviewed for care and services.