Crescent Home Health

The agency failed to electronically transmit monthly Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) data collected to the CMS system every 30 days.

The agency failed to obtain a physician order for an indwelling catheter (a flexible tube placed in the bladder for drainage) for one patient (P) (P#4) of 17 patients sampled.

The agency failed to include goals, and interventions with primary diagnosis and comorbidity for three patients (P) (P#2, P#7, P#8), of 17 sampled patients.

The hospice agency failed to use standard precaution to prevent infection for wound care dressing by using dirty gloves to perform clean wound dressing for one (1) of nineteen (19) sampled patients (P) (#3).

The agency failed to ensure that patient medication profiles were updated to reflect current medications at the time of the comprehensive assessment for one (1) of nineteen (19) sampled patients (P#1).

The agency failed to ensure that patient plan of care was updated to reflect current medications at the time of the comprehensive assessment for one (1) of nineteen (19) sampled patients (P#1).

The agency failed to follow physician’s order to weigh P#13 and P#15. The physician’s order revealed: if unable to weigh patient, may measure body calf two inches below the knee each home visit.

The agency failed to ensure the plans of care which contained verbal orders were signed by the physician within the required 30-day time frame for two (2) of nineteen (19) sampled patients.

The agency's skilled professional staff failed to provide services as ordered by the physician in the plans of care for four of 17 ( #6, #11, #12, and #14) sampled patients.