INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS: Ratings, Survey Results, and Analysis
CMS Five Star Rating (2.5 out of 5): , Patient Recommendation: 81%
795 WORCESTER ST SPRINGFIELD, MA 01151
413-734-5200
Data date: Jan 17, 2024
The Most Important Data about INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS
We've looked at a lot of home health care agencies; this is what we think you need to see first. Read through this even if you do not have much time. (It's the tl;dr section.)
The overall 5-star Rating for INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS is 2.5 out of possible 5 stars (with 1 being the lowest and 5 the highest rating). The average rating nationally for a home health care agency is 3. The agency is highly recommended by 76% of its customers. This is LOWER than the national average. The percentage of patients who gave INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS a rating of 9 or 10 was 81%. This is LOWER than the national average. The agency has been participating in Medicare since 06/26/2003. The agency costs LESS than the average agency nationally. The agency serves 74 ZIP codes.
To jump to a specific section of the review, here are the section headers: General Data, DTC rating, List of Services, Ratings, Service Area, Performance Measures, patient surveys, Medical Professionals.
The home health care database is based on data provided by U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). It is updated as new data is made available.
What is this page all about?
Below is everything shred of information that we can find about INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS, along with our best effort to make sense of the data. Our purpose here is to help you to make good decisions when picking a home health care agency and to keep you informed once you have chosen one. We know from personal experience that choosing a home health care agency is not something you do once and then you forget about it. When you choose a home health care agency, it is important to be aware of any changes, good or bad, so that you can stay as comfortable as possible. Changes in the agency, the people who work there, or the patients can all affect your care.
General Information on INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS
Data as of Jan 17, 2024
Address:
795 WORCESTER ST
SPRINGFIELD, MA 01151
Medicare Provider Number: 227476
Participating in Medicare Since: June 26, 2003
Ownership Type: PROPRIETARY
Cost compared to national average: 99%
DTC Performance for INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS
The DTC-PAC measures assess successful discharge to the community from a PAC setting, with successful discharge to the community including no unplanned rehospitalizations and no death in the 31 days following discharge. Specifically, these measures report a provider’s riskstandardized rate of Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) patients/residents who are discharged to the community following a PAC stay, and do not have an unplanned readmission to an acute care hospital or LTCH in the 31 days following discharge to community, and who remain alive during the 31 days following discharge to community. Community, for this measure, is defined as home or self care, with or without home health services, based on Patient Discharge Status Codes 01, 06, 81, and 86 on the Medicare FFS claim. A statistical approach is used to calculate confidence intervals for the provider’s DTC rate. These confidence intervals are then compared to the national observed DTC rate to assign providers to performance categories for public reporting. The performance categories are (i) better than the national rate, (ii) no different from the national rate, and (iii) worse than the national rate.
DTC performance is Worse Than National Rate for INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS.
Home Health Care Services
INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS offers 6 of 6 services tracked by CMS. A list showing the services offered and not offered is shown below.
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Ratings for INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed a detailed methodology for rating home health care agencies. The scores shown below are based on the The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) Home Health Care Survey.
Rating Type | Rating |
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5-Star Quality Rating | 2.5: |
HHCAHPS Survey Summary Star Rating | 3: |
Star Rating For Health Team Gave Care In A Professional Way | 3: |
Star Rating For Health Team Communicated Well With Them | 2: |
Star Rating Team Discussed Medicines, Pain, And Home Safety | 3: |
Star Rating For How Patients Rated Overall Care From Agency | 3: |
Service Area Covered by INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS
INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS provides home health care services in these zip codes.
01001 01002 01007 01009 01013 01014 01020 01022 01027 01028 01030 01033 01036 01038 01040 01056 01060 01069 01073 01075 01077 01085 01089 01090 01095 01098 01101 01103 01104 01105 01106 01107 01108 01109 01118 01119 01128 01129 01151 01301 01342 01360 01373 01534 01760 01830 01832 01901 01902 02019 02021 02115 02119 02120 02124 02125 02126 02134 02135 02136 02169 02170 02171 02189 02215 02301 02445 02446 02452 02458 02459 02461 02464 02465
Performance Measures for INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS
All of the measures included in HHC are proportions that show what percentage of patients or episodes experienced the process or outcome being measured. For all measures, except acute care hospitalization, a higher measure value means a better score.
Process of care measures tell you how often an agency gave the recommended care (like checking patients for depression when they start getting care). A score of 88% for a process of care measure is interpreted as 88% of the patients received the recommended care during their episode of care.
Question | Percentage |
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How Often Physician-recommended Actions To Address Medication Issues Were Completely Timely | 95.9% |
How Often The Home Health Team Determined Whether Patients Received A Flu Shot For The Current Flu Season | 64.4% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Walking Or Moving Around | 75.7% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Getting In And Out Of Bed | 69.9% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Bathing | 76.6% |
How Often Patients' Breathing Improved | 84.6% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Taking Their Drugs Correctly By Mouth | 73.5% |
How Often Home Health Patients Had To Be Admitted To The Hospital | 13.2% |
How Often Patients Receiving Home Health Care Needed Urgent, Unplanned Care In The ER Without Being Admitted | 12% |
Patient Survey Responses for INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS
Below is information compiled by CMS on the percentage of patients who respond to specific treatments and a comparison of the results for INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS to the national results for similar facilities.
Question | Percentage / Compared to National |
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Percent Of Patients Who Reported That Their Home Health Team Gave Care In A Professional Way | 88% (Nat: 88%) Lower |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported That Their Home Health Team Communicated Well With Them | 83% (Nat: 86%) Lower |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported That Their Home Health Team Discussed Medicines, Pain, And Home Safety With Them | 78% (Nat: 82%) Lower |
Percent Of Patients Who Gave Their Home Health Agency A Rating Of 9 Or 10 On A Scale From 0 (lowest) To 10 (highest) | 81% (Nat: 85%) Lower |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported YES, They Would Definitely Recommend The Home Health Agency To Friends And Family | 76% (Nat: 78%) Lower |
Medical Professionals Associated with INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS
These are the doctors who are affiliated with INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS.