Federal Recertification Survey Survey Dates: 4/24/2025 - 4/25/2025 Valley Home Health Services, a Home Health Agency, is in substantial compliance with 42 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 484.22, Condition Of Participation: Emergency Preparedness.
Every finding on record at Valley Home Health Services
Caribou, Maine · CCN 207054
3 findings across 1 survey, in the inspector's own words.
The inspector’s own words from form CMS-2567, unedited, including CMS’s own spacing. Names and some dates are redacted by CMS.
Survey of April 25, 2025
3 findingsFederal Recertification Survey Survey Dates: 4/24/2025 – 4/25/2025 Valley Home Health Services, a Home Health Agency, is in substantial compliance with 42 Code of Federal Regulation, Part 484, Requirements for Home Health Agencies, however, the following deficiency was identified.
Provide services in the plan of care CFR(s): 484.75(b)(3) Providing services that are ordered by the physician or allowed practitioner as indicated in the plan of care; This ELEMENT is not met as evidenced by: The Home Health Agency failed to ensure that all services ordered for one (1) of ten (10) patients reviewed were provided in accordance with the patient's plan of care (Patient #9). Based on document review and interviews, skilled nursing visits were ordered for Patient #9 one (1) to two (2) times per week, but there was no skilled nursing visit for two (2) of eight (8) weeks of services to the patient. There was no nurse visit during the weeks of 3/10/2024 and 3/24/2024, and there was no documentation in the patient's medical record addressing the missed services. This finding was confirmed by the Chief Nursing Officer on 4/24/2025 at 3:00 PM.
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