Pruitthealth at Home - Atlanta

The agency failed to manage and provide home health care and services to patients, caregivers and families necessary for the palliation and management of the terminal illness and related conditions.

The agency failed to maintain documentation of all the components of drills, tabletop exercises, and emergency events, after action review and revise the hospice's emergency plan, as needed.

The agency failed to electronically transmit monthly Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) data collected to the CMS system every 30 days.

The agency failed to meet all scheduled and ordered clinical visits to provide home health services as written in the individualized plan of care.

The agency failed to provide the patient and caregiver with a written visit schedule.

The agency failed to provide the patient and caregiver with a written medication schedule/instructions.

The agency failed to provide weekly central venous access (catheter inserted into a large central vein that leads to the heart) dressings changes for one patient (P) (P11) of 17 patient record reviews.

The agency's skilled professional staff failed to provide services as ordered by the physician in the plans of care for 2 of 17 ( #2 and #4 ) sampled patients.

The personnel furnishing services failed to maintain liaison to ensure their efforts were coordinated effectively and timely to support the objectives outlined in the plan of care for 1 of 17 (#2) sampled patients.

The agency failed to ensure the patients' clinical record contained complete and accurate documentation of all services including: evaluations, treatments, and clinical notes to address the patients' needs for 5 of 17 (#2, #4, #8, #10 and #13) sampled patients.