Coastal Kids Home Care

The home health agency failed to ensure that the home health agency furnished in speech therapy services, in compliance with federal, state and local laws and regulations.

The home health agency failed to ensure each patient received home health services as indicated in their individualized plan of care (POC - written plan that specifies scope, frequency and duration of services) for four of seven sampled patients when: 1.The physical therapist (PT) missed a home…

The home health agency’s governing body failed to ensure, that the ongoing program for quality improvement was identified to evaluate effectiveness when the recurrent concern of delayed signature by the physician for the plan of care, the provision of speech therapy service was not included in…

The home health agency (HHA) failed to follow accepted standards of practice to prevent the transmission of infections for one of three sampled patients with home visits (Patient 4) when physical therapist B (PT B) failed to use a disposable barrier cloth underneath their plastic box container and…

The home health agency failed to ensure that the agency’s governing body was responsible for the overall management and operation, including the review of the agency’s quality assessment and performance management program when the recurrent concern of delayed signature by the physician for the plan…

The home health agency failed to ensure, the patients and their family members were informed of the toll-free hotline telephone number of the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) to report or file complaints for one out of seven sampled patients, (Patient 2) and were provided with the…

The home health agency failed ensure the patients’ plan of care (POC, written plan that specifies scope, frequency and duration of services) were completed and signed by the physician in a timely manner for three out of seven sampled patients, (Patients 1, 5 and 6) when: 1.For Patient 1, the POCs…

The home health agency (HHA) failed to ensure the patient’s plan of care (POC, written plan that specifies scope, frequency and duration of services) was reviewed and updated for one of seven sampled patients (Patient 4) when Patient 4’s current POC still reflected an active speech therapy (ST)…

The home health agency failed to ensure, clinical notes were created and completed in a timely manner for two out of seven sampled patients, (Patients 1 and 2), when: 1.For Patient 1, the clinical notes of the other professional expressive therapist were done late and 2.For Patient 2, the clinical…

The home health agency (HHA) failed to provide services ordered by the physician as indicated in the plan of care (POC) for two of 13 sampled patients (1 and 2) when the patients did not receive the number of physical therapy (PT) and occupational therapy (OT) visits as written in the POC.

The agency failed to maintain their medical supply storage when several medical supplies were found expired.