Three Star Home Health Agency Inc

This is a continuing deficiency cited at E 0004 during survey dated 09/09/2020. Based on record review and interview, the agency failed to comply with all applicable Federal, State, and local emergency preparedness requirements, in that the agency failed to maintain a comprehensive emergency…

This is a continuing deficiency cited at G 0612 during survey date 09/09/2020. Based on record review, observations, and interviews the agency failed to provide the patient and caregiver written instruction outlining visit schedules with frequency and medication schedule/instructions.

This is a continuing deficiency cited at G 0658 during survey dated 09/09/2020. Based on record review and interview, the agency failed to conduct and document Performance Improvement Projects for the calendar years 2020, 2021 and 2022 (three of three years reviewed), that reflected the scope…

The sample packet did not include the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of the following federally funded and state-funded entities that serve the area where the patients resided: Agency on Aging; Center for Independent Living; Protection and Advocacy Agency, and Aging and Disability Resource…

The agency failed to ensure the individualized plan of care included all required elements, for seven (Patients # 1, #2, # 3, # 5, # 6, # 7 and # 8) of seven active records reviewed and for one (Patient # 11) of one inactive record reviewed.

The agency failed to promptly alert the relevant physician of changes in the patient's needs that suggested outcomes were not being achieved and/or that the plan of care should be altered: in that two (Patients # 2 and # 3) of three active patients whose records were reviewed, with physician’s…