Olympic Medical Home Health

The agency failed to organize, manage, and administer its resources to attain and maintain the highest practicable functional capacity, including providing optimal care to achieve the goals and outcomes identified in the patient's plan of care, for each patient's medical, nursing, and…

The agency failed to transmit discharged patient data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) database in a timely manner for 700 of 4264 records transmitted between 10/01/23 and 09/30/24. Failure to transmit patient data timely could result in inaccurate data and cause delays for…

The agency failed to accurately complete the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) data for M0102 that indicates Physician-ordered start of care (SOC) date or M0104 that indicates completed referral date for 5 of 17 patient records sampled (Patients #605, #607, #610, #613, and #618).

The agency failed to follow the plan of care as ordered by the physician for 6 of 17 patient records sampled (Patients #606, #607, #608, #612, #614, and #617).

The agency failed to ensure that staff followed proper infection prevention and control measures, and the agency policy before, during, and after each patient care on 3 of 7 home visits observed.

The agency failed to update the comprehensive assessment within 48 hours of the patients’ return to home from a hospital admission for 3 of 3 patients (Patient #604, #606, and #608).

The agency failed to provide wound care as ordered by the physician for 1 of 17 patients (Patient #601) (Item #1) and failed to follow documentation of wound care assessments on 1 of 17 patients (Patient #602) (Item #2).

The agency failed to revise the plan of care and communicate changes in patient’s status including interventions, goals and measurable outcomes to the provider upon completion of secondary evaluations for 5 of 17 patients.

The agency failed to notify the physician of frequent patient refusal of skilled services or a change in condition which would call for a change in the Plan of Care (POC) for 2 of 17 patient records sampled (Patient #505 and Patient #514).