CAROLINAS HOME HEALTH: Ratings, Survey Results, and Analysis
CMS Five Star Rating (4 out of 5): , Patient Recommendation: 91%
121 E. CEDAR STREET, PO BOX 100550 FLORENCE, SC 29501
843-629-6811
Data date: Jan 17, 2024
The Most Important Data about CAROLINAS HOME HEALTH
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 CAROLINAS HOME HEALTH is 4 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 83% of its customers. This is HIGHER than the national average. The percentage of patients who gave CAROLINAS HOME HEALTH a rating of 9 or 10 was 91%. This is HIGHER than the national average. The agency has been participating in Medicare since 09/10/1992. The agency costs MORE than the average agency nationally. The agency serves 45 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 CAROLINAS HOME HEALTH, 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 CAROLINAS HOME HEALTH
Data as of Jan 17, 2024
Address:
121 E. CEDAR STREET, PO BOX 100550
FLORENCE, SC 29501
Medicare Provider Number: 427058
Participating in Medicare Since: September 10, 1992
Ownership Type: PROPRIETARY
Cost compared to national average: 102%
DTC Performance for CAROLINAS HOME HEALTH
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 CAROLINAS HOME HEALTH.
Home Health Care Services
CAROLINAS HOME HEALTH 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 CAROLINAS HOME HEALTH
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 | 4: |
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 CAROLINAS HOME HEALTH
CAROLINAS HOME HEALTH provides home health care services in these zip codes.
29056 29069 29079 29101 29114 29161 29501 29502 29504 29505 29506 29512 29516 29518 29525 29530 29532 29536 29540 29541 29543 29546 29547 29550 29551 29554 29555 29556 29560 29563 29564 29565 29567 29570 29571 29574 29580 29581 29583 29590 29591 29592 29593 29594 29596
Performance Measures for CAROLINAS HOME HEALTH
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 | 99.9% |
How Often The Home Health Team Determined Whether Patients Received A Flu Shot For The Current Flu Season | 82.3% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Walking Or Moving Around | 88.8% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Getting In And Out Of Bed | 89.2% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Bathing | 89% |
How Often Patients' Breathing Improved | 95.9% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Taking Their Drugs Correctly By Mouth | 89.4% |
How Often Home Health Patients Had To Be Admitted To The Hospital | 17.5% |
How Often Patients Receiving Home Health Care Needed Urgent, Unplanned Care In The ER Without Being Admitted | 11.9% |
Patient Survey Responses for CAROLINAS HOME HEALTH
Below is information compiled by CMS on the percentage of patients who respond to specific treatments and a comparison of the results for CAROLINAS HOME HEALTH 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 | 91% (Nat: 86%) Higher |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported That Their Home Health Team Discussed Medicines, Pain, And Home Safety With Them | 86% (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) | 91% (Nat: 85%) Higher |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported YES, They Would Definitely Recommend The Home Health Agency To Friends And Family | 83% (Nat: 78%) Higher |
Medical Professionals Associated with CAROLINAS HOME HEALTH
These are the doctors who are affiliated with CAROLINAS HOME HEALTH.
- JOHN ODOM ( FAMILY PRACTICE - MCLEOD HEALTH CHERAW )
- PRAKASH BEERAKA ( FAMILY PRACTICE - MCLEOD PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATES II )
- FIDELIS OJEVWE ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - HOSPITALIST MEDICINE PHYSICIANS OF CALIFORNIA INC )
- ROBERTO MIRANDA ( FAMILY PRACTICE - MUSC COMMUNITY PHYSICIANS )
- LARRY DAVIDSON ( NEUROSURGERY - HARTSVILLE MEDICAL GROUP, LLC )
- KENOSA OKAFOR ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - COGENT MEDICAL CARE PC )
- JOSEPH POWELL ( FAMILY PRACTICE - CAROLINA FAMILY PRACTICE PA )
- SHERRY ELDER ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - SC HOUSE CALLS INC )
- IRIS IGNACIO ( FAMILY PRACTICE - MUSC COMMUNITY PHYSICIANS )
- ELIZABETH NEWSOM ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - THE WESTON GROUP INC )
- CHAD THURMAN ( ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY - MCLEOD PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATES II )
- AMANDA BURNETTE ( FAMILY PRACTICE - HOPEHEALTH, INC. )
- RUFUS CAIN ( FAMILY PRACTICE - SCOTLAND MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, INC )
- CHARLOTTE HANNA ( PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT - MCLEOD PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATES II )
- WILLIAM BOULWARE ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - INTERNAL MEDICINE SPECIALISTS OF FLORENCE LLC )
- NICHOLAS LICARI ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - HOPEHEALTH, INC. )
- RODNEY ALAN ( ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY - MCLEOD PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATES II )
- JANET COOPER ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - SC HOUSE CALLS INC )
- JAMES CARROLL ( FAMILY PRACTICE )
- HUDNALL PASCHAL ( FAMILY PRACTICE - MUSC COMMUNITY PHYSICIANS )
- HOLLY EDMUNDS ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - SC HOUSE CALLS INC )
- CONSTANCE MARONEY ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - MCLEOD PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATES II )
- CHRISTOPHER ZUST ( NEUROLOGY - MCLEOD PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATES II )
- DANIEL HYLER ( FAMILY PRACTICE - HOPEHEALTH, INC. )
- PATRICK DENTON ( SPORTS MEDICINE - MCLEOD PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATES II )
- AARON WYNKOOP ( ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY - HARTSVILLE MEDICAL GROUP, LLC )
- JOHN GAUSE ( GENERAL SURGERY - MCLEOD PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATES II )
- BARRY CLARK ( ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY - HARTSVILLE MEDICAL GROUP, LLC )