Salus Home Health

The home health agency (HHA) failed to ensure the Conditions of Participation for Care Planning, Coordination and Quality of Care were met as follows: The home health agency (HHA) staff failed to promptly alert the attending physician that one of six sample patients (Patient 6 ), had an allergic…

The home health agency failed to ensure the skilled nurse (SN) monitored a patient's blood pressure in two positions to assess for orthostatic hypotension (physical finding defined as a systolic blood pressure decrease of at least 20 millimeter mercury (mm Hg) or a diastolic blood pressure decrease…

The Home Health Agency (HHA)'s registered nursing staff failed to ensure that two different eye medications were administered at least 5 minutes apart for one of six sampled patients (2).

The home health agency (HHA) staff failed to review all the medications and update the medication profile with currently used medications for three of six sampled patients (Patients 1, 5 and 6).

The home health agency (HHA) staff failed to promptly alert the attending physician that one of six sample patients (Patient 6 ), had an allergic reaction to Bactrim (an antibiotic used to treat a urinary tract infection).

The agency failed to provide instruction to the primary care giver about when to give pain medication before receiving wound treatment for one of six patients (Patient 2).