Ochsner Home Health of Covington

The agency failed to encode and electronically transmit each completed OASIS (Outcome and Assessment Information Set) as evidenced by failing to ensure the agency successfully completed and transmitted OASIS data within 30 days of completion (M0090 date).

The agency failed to ensure the medication profile accurately reflected all medications patients were using and/or did not reflect medications the patients were no longer using for 4 (#1, #3, #4, and #7) of 7 (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6 and #7) sampled patients reviewed who received home visits.

The agency failed to ensure a comprehensive assessment was completed in the last 5 days of every 60-day certification period for 1 (Patient #11) of 17 (Patients #1-#17) clinical records reviewed.

The Home Health Agency failed to ensure a physician was promptly made aware of the status of a patient for 1 (#12) of 18 patients reviewed (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18).

The agency's skilled professionals failed to deliver services and practice according to the HHA's policies and procedures for 1 (#10) of 2 (#10, #13) patients reviewed for pressure ulcers when the patient's wounds were not assessed by agency's nursing staff.