Northeast Kansas Multi County HHA

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to include information addressing the process for cooperation and collaboration with local, regional, state and federal emergency preparedness officials in their Emergency Preparedness Plan (EPP).

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to include information outlining procedures for follow up for patients and staff in their Emergency Preparedness Plan (EPP).

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to ensure emergency preparedness policies and procedures included the use of volunteers during an emergency.

Staff interview the home health agency skilled staff failed to ensure the patient's right to participate in, be informed about, and consent or refuse care in advance of and during treatment with respect to the disciplines that will furnish the care and the frequency of visits for 6 of 7 sample…

The Home Health Agency (HHA) failed to ensure that services and treatments were provided only as ordered by the physician, in that, visits were made to provide wound care without physician orders for 1 of 7 sample patients (Patient 4).

The home health agency (HHA) failed to send a transfer summary to the facility were the patient was receiving in-patient health care services for 1 of 1 patients (Patient 6).

Staff interview the home health agency failed to ensure the Skilled Professionals assumed the responsibility to: 1. Ensure each patient's Plan of Care was individualized to include: a specified frequency and indication for use, was written next to all written orders for PRN (whenever necessary)…

The agency failed to ensure the contents of each clinical record were complete with answers to each categorized sections of the OASIS (Outcome and Assessment Information Set, a standardized, patient-specific assessment that Home Health Agencies must collect to participate in the Medicare program…

Staff interview the home health agency failed to ensure each patient's Plan of Care was individualized, to include: 1. A specified frequency and indication for use, written next to all orders for PRN (as needed) medications on a patient's Plan of Care, for three of seven sampled patients, (Patient…

The agency failed to ensure the skilled nurse integrated all of an assisted-living facility patient's, physician's orders with staff members of the home health, assisted living, and all physicians involved in the care of the patient, to assure coordination of all services and interventions were…