Elara Caring

The agency failed to ensure the patient’s comprehensive assessment included a review of all medications the patient was currently using.

The agency failed to communicate an elevated Potassium level with the Physician for 1 (#4) of 4 (#4, #5, #6, and #7) patients reviewed with home visits.

The agency failed to comply with accepted professional standards and principles by failing to have a Registered Nurse assess a patient's wounds, including the size and stage, weekly for 2 (#3, #9) of 3 (#3, #9, #13) patients reviewed with pressure ulcers out of a total of 13 sampled patients.

The agency failed to ensure the medication profile accurately reflected all medications patients were using and/or did not reflect medications the patients were no longer using, for 2 (#4 and #5) of 5 (#1-#5) sampled patients reviewed who received home visits.

The agency failed to ensure the plan of care was signed and dated by the patient's physician in a timely manner for 5 (#3, #7, #9, #11, #13) of 13 (#1-#13) sampled patients.

The agency failed to complete a comprehensive assessment on 1 (#7) of 2 (#7, #12) patients reviewed that had wounds.

The agency failed to conform with physician orders.