Professional Hhs of Southwest Louisiana

The home health agency failed to provide evidence of the measures taken to investigate why the patient was refusing to keep wound care clinic appointments; in an attempt to provide interventions for patient to be compliant with plan of care (POC) prior to discharge from the agency for 1 (Patient…

The agency failed to ensure the patient's written individualized POC (plan of care) was followed as evidenced by the skilled Nurse (SN) failing to make visits as ordered per the POC for patient (#2) for 1 out of 7 sampled patients.

The facility failed to ensure medical exemptions for the COVID-19 vaccines identified which COVID-19 vaccine was clinically contraindicated for 4 (S3PT, S4PT, S5PT, S6PTA) (Physical Therapy and Physical Therapy Assistant) of the 4 employees who had medical exemptions.

The agency failed to ensure that medicine reconciliations were accurately performed during skilled nurse visits for 1 (Patient #3) out of 7 sampled patients.

The agency failed to ensure that services were integrated to assure the identification of patient needs and factors that could affect patient treatment and the coordination of care provided by all disciplines for 1 patient when PT (Physical Therapy) failed to inform the nurse/physician of patient’s…