Maxim Healthcare Services, Inc

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to ensure interventions for patient/caregiver teaching on checking placement prior to gastrostomy (G-tube, an opening into the stomach from the abdominal wall, made surgically for the introduction of food) feeding, was implemented in accordance with the plan of…

An organization that delivers skilled nursing and other therapeutics service to a patient at home) failed to update the comprehensive assessment (in-person clinical assessment of the patient's physical, functional, mental, psychosocial, and cognitive status to identify the needs of the patient and…

An organization that delivers skilled nursing and other therapeutics service to a patient at home) failed to develop an individualized plan of care (POC) that included problems, goals and interventions for one of seven sampled patients (Patient 2), who had a diagnosis of epilepsy (a chronic brain…

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to notify the physician for one of seven sampled patients (Patient 4) of a change of condition.

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to ensure the Condition of Participation (conditions that health care organizations must meet in order to begin and continue participating in the Medicare [a federal health insurance for people 65 or older, and some people under 65 with certain disabilities or…

The Home Health Agency failed to ensure the Condition of Participation (conditions that health care organizations must meet in order to begin and continue participating in the Medicare [a federal system of health insurance for people over 65 years of age and for certain younger people with…

The home health agency failed to ensure one of seven sampled patients (Patient 1) had the right to be free from physical abuse by failing to: 1. Ensure Patient 1 was free from physical abuse from Licensed Vocational Nurse 1 (LVN 1).

The home health agency failed to conduct an complaint investigation regarding mistreatment and physical abuse (the willful infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation, or punishment with resulting physical harm, pain or mental anguish.

The home health agency (HHA) failed to document the alleged abuse (the willful infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation, or punishment with resulting physical harm, pain or mental anguish.

The home health agency failed to report an alleged abuse (the willful infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation, or punishment with resulting physical harm, pain or mental anguish.

The home health agency failed to update the medication profile (the lists of medication a patient is taking and had used) to reflect the patient's current medications for one of seven sampled patients (Patient 4).

The home health agency failed to ensure the physician’s treatment order to cleanse the gastric tube (a tube surgically inserted into the stomach for medications and nutrition administration) were followed for three of 7 sampled patients (Patient 1, Patient 2, and Patient 6).

The home health agency failed to ensure caregiver training, instructions or health teaching was provided to the caregiver on how to administer gastric tube (GT, a tube surgically inserted into the stomach to administer nutrition and medications) feeding for one out of seven patients, (Patient 4).

Failed to ensure the allegation of abuse (the willful infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation, or punishment with resulting physical harm, pain, or mental anguish.

The home health agency (HHA) failed to: 1. Implement its policy and procedure on Abuse (the willful infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation, or punishment with resulting physical harm, pain or mental anguish.