Sky Home Health Care Inc

The home health agency failed to comply with all applicable Federal, State and local emergency preparedness requirements (E0001); failed to develop an emergency plan that included strategies for addressing emergency events which were identified by the agencies Risk Assessment Analysis (E0006)…

The home health agency failed to ensure orders were received from the physician prior to staff providing services (see G580), failed to ensure the POC was established and reviewed with the physician at SOC (see G588), failed to provide a written visit schedule to all patients (see G614), failed to…

The home health agency failed to ensure all staff followed standard precautions and agency infection control procedures for 2 of 3 home visit observations (Patients #2, 3).

The home health agency failed to ensure orders were received from the physician prior to staff providing services for 10 of 10 patient records reviewed (Patients #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10).

The home health agency failed to ensure the POC was established and reviewed with the physician at SOC for 10 of 10 records reviewed (Patient #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10).

The home health agency failed to provide a written visit schedule to all patients for 3 of 3 home visit observations (Patients #1, 2, 3).

The home health agency failed to provide all patients with a written copy of instructions including the clinical manager’s name and contact information for 3 of 3 home visit observations (Patients #1, 2, 3).

The skilled nurse failed to conduct a thorough and complete assessment for 3 of 3 home visit observations (Patient #1, 2, 3).

The skilled nurse failed to provide all services according to the plan of care for 1 of 1 records reviewed of a patient who was hospitalized (Patient #1) and 1 of 3 home visit observations (Patient #2).

The home health agency failed to submit a discharge summary to the physician within five days of discharge for 1 of 3 discharge records reviewed (Patient #6).