HOME CARE SERVICES OF NORTHWEST INDIANA: Ratings, Survey Results, and Analysis

The Most Important Data about HOME CARE SERVICES OF NORTHWEST INDIANA

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The overall 5-star Rating for HOME CARE SERVICES OF NORTHWEST INDIANA is 1.5 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 67% of its customers. This is LOWER than the national average. The percentage of patients who gave HOME CARE SERVICES OF NORTHWEST INDIANA a rating of 9 or 10 was 75%. This is LOWER than the national average. The agency has been participating in Medicare since 05/29/2001. The agency costs MORE than the average agency nationally. The agency serves 48 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.

General Information on HOME CARE SERVICES OF NORTHWEST INDIANA

DTC Performance for HOME CARE SERVICES OF NORTHWEST INDIANA

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 HOME CARE SERVICES OF NORTHWEST INDIANA.

Home Health Care Services

HOME CARE SERVICES OF NORTHWEST INDIANA offers 6 of 6 services tracked by CMS. A list showing the services offered and not offered is shown below.

Ratings for HOME CARE SERVICES OF NORTHWEST INDIANA

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.

Service Area Covered by HOME CARE SERVICES OF NORTHWEST INDIANA

HOME CARE SERVICES OF NORTHWEST INDIANA provides home health care services in these zip codes.

46301 46304 46307 46310 46319 46321 46323 46340 46341 46342 46345 46346 46347 46350 46360 46365 46366 46368 46371 46374 46375 46382 46383 46385 46391 46392 46403 46406 46408 46409 46410 46506 46511 46531 46534 46552 46574 46939 46947 46960 46975 46985 46996 47943 47946 47960 47978 62912

Performance Measures for HOME CARE SERVICES OF NORTHWEST INDIANA

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.

Patient Survey Responses for HOME CARE SERVICES OF NORTHWEST INDIANA

Below is information compiled by CMS on the percentage of patients who respond to specific treatments and a comparison of the results for HOME CARE SERVICES OF NORTHWEST INDIANA to the national results for similar facilities.