Caring Nurses Inc

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to ensure a comprehensive Emergency Preparedness program was reviewed and updated every two years.

The facility failed to ensure comprehensive Emergency Preparedness program policies were developed and reviewed every two years.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to ensure staff received emergency preparedness training biannually as required by the agency's policy and failed to maintain documentation of all emergency preparedness training.

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 provide a medication profile for one of seven patients (Patient (P) 3) observed during seven home visits completed on 06/10/2025 to 06/12/2025. This deficient practice had the potential to affect the current 138 patients, and any future patient admitted to the…

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to ensure that one of six staff, Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)1 followed agency policy for hand hygiene and gloving during one home visit observation for one patient (Patient (P) 6) and failed to ensure that two of six staff observed followed agency policy…

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to provide documentation for in-service training for three of four Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA).

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to reconcile medications and update the medication profile for one of seven patients (Patient (P) 3) observed during seven home visits completed 06/10/2025 - 06/12/2025. This deficient practice had the potential to affect the current 138 patients and any future…

The home health agency (HHA) failed to ensure staff followed accepted standards of practice for hand hygiene and bag technique during three of seven patient (Patient (P)1, P2, and P6) home visit observations.

The agency failed to demonstrate the presence of a comprehensive performance improvement program that included the projects undertaken, rational for conducting these projects and evidence measurable progress toward a goal was made.

The agency failed to maintain a program for identification, prevention, control, investigation, and analysis of infectious disease.

The agency failed to ensure 6 of 6 CNAs received the required 12 hours of in-services in the last 12 months (CNA 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).

The agency failed to ensure appropriately authenticated and timely information is in the electronic medical record for 9 of 17 patients (patient (P)1, P4, P5, P6, P9, P10, P11, P16, and P17. Findings include: The agency did not provide laptops or tablets for the purpose of documenting information…

The home health agency was not in compliance with rules regarding safeguarding personal health information and failure to protect patient information from risk of loss or unauthorized use.

The facility failed to include a clinical review of Patient medications.

The agency failed to obtain signed physician orders for changes in medication or update for the patient's medication list.

The facility failed to ensure physician orders were followed for administration of intravenous Immune Gamma Globulin Infusions (IVIG) for 2 of 2 patients (Patient 12 and Patient 17).

The agency failed to document the patient's progress toward achieving goals identified in the patient's plan of care, (POC), for 17 of 17 sampled patients, (Patient (P)1, P2, P3, P4, P5, P6, P7, P8, P9, P10, P11, P12, P13, P14, P15, P16, and P17. Findings include: A review of the 17 sampled…