Extended Home Care

Staff interview the agency failed to ensure all clinicians coordinate care to meet the patient's needs and involve the patient.

The agency failed to ensure that all completed OASIS (Outcome and Assessment Information Set) assessments were transmitted to the CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) within thirty (30) days.

The agency failed to ensure that all patients receive services as documented in their individualized plan of care.

The agency failed to ensure that all healthcare personnel follow standard infection control precautions.

The agency failed to ensure that the comprehensive assessment accurately reflected the patient’s status, and/or the safety teaching needs of the patient.

The agency failed to ensure that a discharge comprehensive assessment including the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) was completed within two days of the patient's discharge date.

The agency failed to ensure each patient's individualized plan of care was complete and included all the required information.

The agency failed to ensure each patient's physician was promptly alerted to changes in condition that suggest the outcomes are not being achieved and required the plan of care to be altered.

The agency failed to ensure all patients received integrated services provided by various disciplines.

The agency failed to ensure that all patients were provided with a copy of written instructions outlining the visit schedule/frequency of home health agency personnel visits.

The agency failed to ensure each patient's individualized plan of care is complete, accurate and includes all the required information.

The agency failed to ensure that treatments are administered only as ordered by the physician for each patient.