GLACIAL RIDGE HOME CARE: Ratings, Survey Results, and Analysis

CMS Five Star Rating (1.5 out of 5): , Patient Recommendation: 92%

 219 FIRST STREET SOUTHEAST GLENWOOD, MN 56334

  320-634-2221

Data date: Jan 17, 2024

The Most Important Data about GLACIAL RIDGE HOME CARE

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The overall 5-star Rating for GLACIAL RIDGE HOME CARE 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 87% of its customers. This is HIGHER than the national average. The percentage of patients who gave GLACIAL RIDGE HOME CARE a rating of 9 or 10 was 92%. This is HIGHER than the national average. The agency has been participating in Medicare since 11/14/1985. The agency costs MORE than the average agency nationally. The agency serves 23 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 GLACIAL RIDGE HOME CARE, 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 GLACIAL RIDGE HOME CARE

Data as of Jan 17, 2024

Address:

219 FIRST STREET SOUTHEAST

GLENWOOD, MN 56334

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Medicare Provider Number: 247212

Participating in Medicare Since: November 14, 1985

Ownership Type: GOVERNMENT - LOCAL

Cost compared to national average: 141%

DTC Performance for GLACIAL RIDGE HOME CARE

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 Same As National Rate for GLACIAL RIDGE HOME CARE.

Home Health Care Services

GLACIAL RIDGE HOME CARE offers 6 of 6 services tracked by CMS. A list showing the services offered and not offered is shown below.

Services Offered Services Not Offered
  • Nursing
  • Physical Therapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Speech Pathology Therapy
  • Medical Social Services
  • Home Health Aide Services
  • NONE

Ratings for GLACIAL RIDGE HOME CARE

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
5-Star Quality Rating 1.5:
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 5:
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 GLACIAL RIDGE HOME CARE

GLACIAL RIDGE HOME CARE provides home health care services in these zip codes.

56215 56216 56244 56252 56267 56273 56289 56308 56312 56315 56316 56318 56323 56327 56334 56339 56343 56349 56354 56360 56378 56381 56385

Performance Measures for GLACIAL RIDGE HOME CARE

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
How Often Physician-recommended Actions To Address Medication Issues Were Completely Timely 95.4%
How Often The Home Health Team Determined Whether Patients Received A Flu Shot For The Current Flu Season 85.2%
How Often Patients Got Better At Walking Or Moving Around 52.8%
How Often Patients Got Better At Getting In And Out Of Bed 62.8%
How Often Patients Got Better At Bathing 53%
How Often Patients' Breathing Improved 58.8%
How Often Patients Got Better At Taking Their Drugs Correctly By Mouth 42.2%
How Often Home Health Patients Had To Be Admitted To The Hospital 23.3%
How Often Patients Receiving Home Health Care Needed Urgent, Unplanned Care In The ER Without Being Admitted 15.4%

Patient Survey Responses for GLACIAL RIDGE HOME CARE

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

Question Percentage / Compared to National
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 93% (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) 92% (Nat: 85%)
Higher
Percent Of Patients Who Reported YES, They Would Definitely Recommend The Home Health Agency To Friends And Family 87% (Nat: 78%)
Higher

Medical Professionals Associated with GLACIAL RIDGE HOME CARE

These are the doctors who are affiliated with GLACIAL RIDGE HOME CARE.