Sahara Health Care Inc

The home health agency (HHA) failed to ensure 2 of 2 skill professionals (LVN #52 and PTA #53) implemented the patient's plan of care (POC) by notifying the ordering physician of the patient's out of range vital signs and change of condition; failed to coordinate with the agency's Director of…

The home health agency (HHA) failed to ensure agency staff provided optimal care identified in the patient's plan of care, in that: 1) The Administrator failed to be responsible for all day-to-day operations to ensure skilled professionals implemented the agency policy for coordination of…

The home health agency (HHA) failed to ensure that the skilled nurse (SN) (Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) #52) provided services as ordered by the physician in the plan of care (POC) for 1 of 1 patient (#3) with a change in health condition whose clinical record (CR) was reviewed, in that: On…

The home health agency failed to ensure skilled professionals and supervising staff promptly coordinated care with the ordering physician involved in the patient's POC for 1 of 1 patient (#3) with a change in health condition whose CR was reviewed, in that: 1) Patient #3's POC ordered the SN to…

The home health agency failed to ensure skilled professionals promptly alerted the ordering physician regarding changes in the patient's condition or needs to suggest a need to alter the POC for 1 of 1 patient (#3) with a change in health condition whose CR was reviewed, in that: 1) Patient #3 had…

The agency's DON and ADON failed to ensure a registered nurse (RN) conducted a reassessment for 1 of 1 patient (#3) with a change in health condition reported by LVN #52, in that: When notified of Patient's #3 change in condition by LVN #52 on 7/13/2020 the DON and the ADON failed to ensure a RN…

The home health agency failed to ensure skilled nursing professionals provided services as ordered in the POC signed by the physician for 1 of 1 patient (#3) with change in health condition and whose CR was reviewed, in that: LVN #52 failed to report out of prescribed parameters to the patient's…

The agency's skilled professionals failed to promptly coordinated care with the ordering physician involved in the patient's POC for 1 of 1 patient (#3) with a change in health condition whose CR was reviewed, in that: 1) Patient #3's POC ordered the SN to report to the physician out of range O2…

The Administrator failed to be responsible for all day-to-day operations to ensure skilled professionals implemented the agency policy for coordination of care/services with a patient's physician and failed to ensure the Alternate Administrator/ADON had an RN promptly conduct a reassessment for 1…

The home health agency failed to ensure agency staff provided optimal care to achieve the goals and outcomes identified in the patient's plan of care for 1 of 1 patient (#3) with a change in health condition whose CR was reviewed, in that: 1) Patient #3 POC orders instructed the SN to report to the…