ADVANTAGE HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE: Ratings, Survey Results, and Analysis
CMS Five Star Rating (2.5 out of 5): , Patient Recommendation: 87%
1502 ROUTE 61 HIGHWAY SOUTH POTTSVILLE, PA 17901
570-668-6300
Data date: Jan 17, 2024
The Most Important Data about ADVANTAGE HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE
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 ADVANTAGE HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE 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 80% of its customers. This is HIGHER than the national average. The percentage of patients who gave ADVANTAGE HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE a rating of 9 or 10 was 87%. This is HIGHER than the national average. The agency has been participating in Medicare since 10/07/2014. The agency costs LESS than the average agency nationally. The agency serves 144 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 ADVANTAGE HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE, 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 ADVANTAGE HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE
Data as of Jan 17, 2024
Address:
1502 ROUTE 61 HIGHWAY SOUTH
POTTSVILLE, PA 17901
Medicare Provider Number: 398225
Participating in Medicare Since: October 07, 2014
Ownership Type: PROPRIETARY
Cost compared to national average: 86%
DTC Performance for ADVANTAGE HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE
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 Better Than National Rate for ADVANTAGE HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE.
Home Health Care Services
ADVANTAGE HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE 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 ADVANTAGE HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE
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 | 4: |
Star Rating For Health Team Gave Care In A Professional Way | 4: |
Star Rating For Health Team Communicated Well With Them | 4: |
Star Rating Team Discussed Medicines, Pain, And Home Safety | 4: |
Star Rating For How Patients Rated Overall Care From Agency | 4: |
Service Area Covered by ADVANTAGE HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE
ADVANTAGE HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE provides home health care services in these zip codes.
17015 17019 17023 17026 17030 17032 17038 17042 17046 17048 17067 17073 17086 17087 17097 17098 17110 17339 17517 17519 17569 17740 17813 17832 17834 17836 17841 17851 17866 17870 17872 17888 17901 17920 17921 17922 17923 17925 17929 17930 17931 17932 17933 17934 17935 17936 17938 17941 17944 17946 17948 17949 17951 17952 17953 17954 17957 17959 17960 17961 17963 17964 17965 17967 17968 17970 17972 17974 17976 17980 17981 17982 17983 17985 18017 18018 18020 18030 18031 18034 18049 18052 18062 18071 18088 18102 18103 18104 18201 18210 18211 18214 18218 18220 18229 18232 18235 18237 18240 18245 18250 18252 18255 19344 19464 19465 19505 19506 19507 19508 19510 19512 19518 19520 19522 19526 19529 19530 19533 19534 19538 19539 19540 19541 19543 19547 19549 19551 19554 19555 19560 19562 19565 19567 19601 19602 19604 19605 19606 19607 19608 19609 19610 19611
Performance Measures for ADVANTAGE HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE
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 | 98% |
How Often The Home Health Team Determined Whether Patients Received A Flu Shot For The Current Flu Season | 70.8% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Walking Or Moving Around | 74.4% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Getting In And Out Of Bed | 75.1% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Bathing | 81.8% |
How Often Patients' Breathing Improved | 84.4% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Taking Their Drugs Correctly By Mouth | 72.1% |
How Often Home Health Patients Had To Be Admitted To The Hospital | 13.9% |
How Often Patients Receiving Home Health Care Needed Urgent, Unplanned Care In The ER Without Being Admitted | 8.3% |
Patient Survey Responses for ADVANTAGE HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE
Below is information compiled by CMS on the percentage of patients who respond to specific treatments and a comparison of the results for ADVANTAGE HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE 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 | 91% (Nat: 88%) Higher |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported That Their Home Health Team Communicated Well With Them | 90% (Nat: 86%) Higher |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported That Their Home Health Team Discussed Medicines, Pain, And Home Safety With Them | 84% (Nat: 82%) Higher |
Percent Of Patients Who Gave Their Home Health Agency A Rating Of 9 Or 10 On A Scale From 0 (lowest) To 10 (highest) | 87% (Nat: 85%) Higher |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported YES, They Would Definitely Recommend The Home Health Agency To Friends And Family | 80% (Nat: 78%) Higher |
Medical Professionals Associated with ADVANTAGE HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE
These are the doctors who are affiliated with ADVANTAGE HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE.
- MARGARET YOUNG ( FAMILY PRACTICE - MICHAEL J ZAWISZA, DO, PC )
- BENJAMIN DARHUN ( FAMILY PRACTICE - THE WESTON GROUP INC )
- CALVIN STOUDT ( ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY - INTEGRATED MEDICAL GROUP P C )
- DAVID RUSSELL ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - SCHUYLKILL HEALTH SYSTEM MEDICAL GROUP, INC. )
- MANISH MISHRA ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - IMG NURSING HOME CARE, P.C. )
- KYLE RIGANATI ( FAMILY PRACTICE - FC SELECT LLC )
- KEVIN TEREFENKO ( ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY - KEYSTONE ORTHOPAEDIC SPECIALISTS, LLC )
- GREGORY DOBASH ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ST LUKE'S PHYSICIAN GROUP INC )
- PHILLIP TOBASH ( FAMILY PRACTICE - IMG NURSING HOME CARE, P.C. )
- ROBERT HARKINS ( FAMILY PRACTICE - GSLPG, INC )
- CYNTHIA LUBINSKY ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ADVANCED INPATIENT MEDICINE LEHIGH PC )
- STEPHEN BANCO ( ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY - KEYSTONE ORTHOPAEDIC SPECIALISTS, LLC )
- CAROL MILLER-SCHAEFFER ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - SCHUYLKILL HEALTH SYSTEM MEDICAL GROUP, INC. )
- JOSEPH ZAWISZA ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - MICHAEL J ZAWISZA, DO, PC )
- CRAIG KRAUSE ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ST LUKE'S PHYSICIAN GROUP INC )