Assisted Home Health

The home health agency failed to ensure ordered services were provided according to the physician’s plan of care and failed to ensure the physician was notified when ordered home visits were missed for three of 17 sampled patients (Patients 7, 13, and 17).

The facility failed to ensure medications were reviewed and the current medication profile was updated to match the medications the patient was taking for one of 17 sampled patients (Patient 11).

The facility failed to ensure medications were reviewed and updated on current medication profile to match what patients are currently taking for 4 of 17 sampled patients (Patient 11, 12, 15 and 16) This facility failure has the potential for patients taking medications not prescribed by the…

The facility failed to ensure two of 17 patients (Patient 1 and Patient 16) had physician notification documentation in the clinical record when: 1. Skilled nursing visits were not conducted 2. Physical Therapy (PT - medical treatment used to restore functional movements such as walking, standing…