Mederi Caretenders

The agency failed to ensure nurses followed physician orders for 1 of 3 patients reviewed for wound care of a total sample of 17 patients, (#11).

The Home Health Agency failed to ensure Home Health Aide (HHA) supervisory visits were done for 3 of 3 patients reviewed for HHA services of a total sample of 17 patients, (#11, #12, and #15).

The agency failed to ensure that discharge summaries were successfully sent to the patients' practitioners for 2 of 5 discharged patient records reviewed (#2 and #3) of a total sample of 17 patients.

The agency failed to ensure that each patient received home health services in the form of skilled nursing visits that were written in the plan of care and signed by a doctor of medicine for 1 of 7 sampled patients (#9).

The agency failed to ensure that the comprehensive assessment was updated and revised as the patient's condition warrants, at discharge, for 1 of 7 sampled patients (#11).

The agency failed to ensure a physician was alerted to changes in the patient's needs in the form of an insufficient skilled nursing visits being performed in one of seven sampled patients (#9).