Fifteen of Iowa’s 135 home-health agencies have been inspected by the state so far this year and 14 of them have been cited for violations. Four of the agencies cited for violations are run by county health departments. At one privately operated agency, inspectors found that patients were in immediate jeopardy caused by a nurse who failed to follow a patient’s orders for resuscitation and then left the patient’s home without calling 911 after concluding the man was dead.
