Northeast Georgia Home Health III, LLC

The advisory group failed to meet quarterly, as documented by dated minutes, to advise the agency on professional issues and to participate in the agency's total program evaluation.

The agency failed to ensure that patients' medication profiles were updated to reflect current medications for 3 of 7 (#2, #6 and #7) patients (P) observed during home visits.

The agency failed to include orders to cover all pertinent diagnoses to ensure the patients' identified needs were addressed and failed to ensure disease specific treatments/interventions were included on plans of care/treatment for 5 of 17 (#6, #9, #10, #13 and #16) sampled patients (P).

The agency staff failed to ensure the home health aide care plan was updated to provide safe instructions for the provision of care to meet the patient's current needs for 1 of 3 sampled patients (P) requiring home health aide services (#3).

The agency failed to ensure the clinical records included clear and accurate documentation of all interventions and responses to the interventions in accordance with professional standards for 6 of 17 ( #3, #5, #6, #8, #10 and #16) sampled patients (P).