Assured Home Health

For 1 of 4 patients (Patient #3), the agency failed to promptly notify physician to changes in the patient's wound condition.

For 1 of 4 patients (Patient #3), the agency failed to measure Patient #3's wound on a timely manner as indicated in the plan of care and the agency's policy and procedure.

The agency failed to perform a complete review of medications that included checking medication orders for duplicate drug therapy and/or non-compliance with drug therapy for 1 of 4 patient records reviewed (Patient #3).

For 1 of 4 patients (Patient 3), the agency failed to provide evidence that a Registered Nurse monitored and evaluated the LPN/LVN as required.

The agency failed to electronically transmit each completed OASIS assessment to the CMS system within 30 days of completing the assessment of the beneficiary for 170 of 1055 assessments processed.

The agency failed to ensure that the registered nurse provided a complete care plan to the home health aide that addressed all relevant issues for 3 of 3 aide care plans reviewed (Patients #3, #6, and #11).

The agency failed to include all interventions and responses to those interventions in the clinical record for 11 of 17 patient records reviewed (Patients #1, #2, #3, #6, #7, #8, #10, #12-17).