PALMER LUTHERAN HEALTH CENTER INC Review

  The Most Important Data about PALMER LUTHERAN HEALTH CENTER INC

In the briefest summary, PALMER LUTHERAN HEALTH CENTER INC is a medical group with 40 professionals providing medical services at 7 locations. They cover 11 specialties.PALMER LUTHERAN HEALTH CENTER INC is affiliated with 14 hospitals

National Provider Number (NPI):

4284544255

   What is this page all about?

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") compiles and distributes more than 17 tables of data on medical professionals on a sporadic basis. Some of the tables contain more than a million records which makes it very difficult to manage them. There is a lot of information to pour through when trying to understand PALMER LUTHERAN HEALTH CENTER INC. Luckily, we are here to help! I’ve put together this page to help you to get a better idea of what the PALMER LUTHERAN HEALTH CENTER INC does, their affiliations and much more. (If you want to jump to a specific section of the review, here are the section headers: Ratings, Specialities Covered, Office Locations, Affiliations, and Other Physician Groups.)

   Specialties Covered by PALMER LUTHERAN HEALTH CENTER INC

PALMER LUTHERAN HEALTH CENTER INC includes medical professionals from 11 specialties

Specialty	Number
CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER	2
NURSE PRACTITIONER	9
PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT	5
QUALIFIED AUDIOLOGIST	1
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE (CNM)	1
EMERGENCY MEDICINE	1
FAMILY PRACTICE	5
INTERNAL MEDICINE	3
RADIATION ONCOLOGY	1
DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY	12
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (CARDIOLOGY)	4

   Ratings for PALMER LUTHERAN HEALTH CENTER INC

When it comes to healthcare, patients want the best possible care and experience. Figuring this out and boiling it down to a few measures, can be difficult. The information below shows our best analysis. We review all of the the data from CMS. The information below summarizes the results of the most recent annual survey of health care providers called the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems or "CAHPS" as well as data used for the calculation of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System ("MIPS"). The most recent data for both of these datasets is calendar year 2021. According to the CMS website, the 2022 survey data is being finalized but they have not indicated when it will be publicly available.

CAHPS Survey Results

There is no information about the overall patient rating for PALMER LUTHERAN HEALTH CENTER INC.

MIPS Measures

Measure	Percent Compliance
Appropriate Treatment for Upper Respiratory Infection (URI)	97%
Breast Cancer Screening	70%
Cervical Cancer Screening	68%
Controlling High Blood Pressure	86%
Diabetes: Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) Poor Control (>9%)	11%
Falls: Screening for Future Fall Risk	89%
Provide 24/7 Access to MIPS Eligible Clinicians or Groups Who Have Real-Time Access to Patient's Medical Record	Yes

   PALMER LUTHERAN HEALTH CENTER INC Office Locations

   Hospitals Affiliated with PALMER LUTHERAN HEALTH CENTER INC

PALMER LUTHERAN HEALTH CENTER INC professionals work with these hospitals:

• ALLEN HOSPITAL
• CHEROKEE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
• COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
• GUNDERSEN BOSCOBEL AREA HOSPITAL AND CLINICS
• GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER
• GUNDERSEN PALMER LUTHERAN HOSPITAL AND CLINICS
• GUNDERSEN ST JOSEPHS HOSPITAL AND CLINICS
• GUNDERSEN TRI-COUNTY HOSPITAL & CLINICS
• MERCYONE WATERLOO MEDICAL CENTER
• ST ELIZABETH MEDICAL CENTER
• TOMAH MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
• VERNON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
• VETERANS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
• WINNESHIEK MEDICAL CENTER

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