Intermountain Homecare Home Health Salt Lake

The agency did not coordinate care delivery to meet the patient's needs.

The agency did not ensure that all patient medications had been reviewed by a nurse no later than 5 calendar days from their start of care; or within 48 hours of the patient's return to the home from a hospital admission of 24 hours or more; or on physician-ordered resumption date as part of the…

The agency failed to develop individual plans of care to meet the patient specific needs with measurable outcomes.

The agency failed to ensure that skilled nursing services participated in the coordination of care.

The agency failed to organize, manage, and administer its resources to attain and maintain the highest practicable functional capacity provide optimal care to achieve goals and outcomes identified in the patient's plan of care, for each patients medical and nursing needs.

The agency did not develop an individualized plan of care that identified patient-specific needs with measurable outcomes and goals for 2 of 3 sample patients who had a complete medical record review.

The agency did not provide services to patients that required specialized nursing skills, and provide nursing visits as ordered by the physician for 3 of 3 who had a complete medical record review.

The home health agency did not have a governing body (GB) that had assumed responsibility for the overall operation of the agency.

The clinical manager was not available to coordinate patient care services, ensure patient assignments were met, ensure the development and implementation of plan of care, and follow physician orders for 3 of 3 sample patients who had a complete medical record review.

The agency did not ensure that the individualized plan of care contained the required elements for 3 of 3 sampled patients who had a complete medical record review.

The agency did not ensure that all physician orders were recorded in the plan of care for 1 of 3 sample patients who had a complete medical record review.

The agency did not provide ongoing accurate assessments from the initial assessment through discharge for 1 of 3 sample patients who had a completed medical record review.

The agency did not develop an individualized plan of care that identified patient-specific needs with measurable outcomes and goals and had all required elements documented for 3 of 3 sample patients who had a complete medical record review.

The agency did not ensure that all physician orders were provided to patients for 1 of 3 sample patients who had a complete medical record review.