ALTRU'S HOME HEALTH: Ratings, Survey Results, and Analysis
CMS Five Star Rating (3.5 out of 5): , Patient Recommendation: 82%
1380 SOUTH COLUMBIA RD GRAND FORKS, ND 58201
701-780-5880
Data date: Jan 17, 2024
The Most Important Data about ALTRU'S 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 ALTRU'S HOME HEALTH is 3.5 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 85% of its customers. This is HIGHER than the national average. The percentage of patients who gave ALTRU'S HOME HEALTH a rating of 9 or 10 was 82%. This is LOWER than the national average. The agency has been participating in Medicare since 09/01/1979. The agency costs MORE than the average agency nationally. The agency serves 99 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 ALTRU'S 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 ALTRU'S HOME HEALTH
Data as of Jan 17, 2024
Address:
1380 SOUTH COLUMBIA RD
GRAND FORKS, ND 58201
Medicare Provider Number: 357014
Participating in Medicare Since: September 01, 1979
Ownership Type: VOLUNTARY NON-PROFIT - OTHER
Cost compared to national average: 104%
DTC Performance for ALTRU'S 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 ALTRU'S HOME HEALTH.
Home Health Care Services
ALTRU'S 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 ALTRU'S 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 | 3.5: |
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 | 3: |
Star Rating Team Discussed Medicines, Pain, And Home Safety | 5: |
Star Rating For How Patients Rated Overall Care From Agency | 3: |
Service Area Covered by ALTRU'S HOME HEALTH
ALTRU'S HOME HEALTH provides home health care services in these zip codes.
56523 56701 56710 56713 56716 56720 56721 56722 56723 56724 56725 56727 56732 56737 56738 56744 56751 56757 56758 56759 56760 56762 58201 58203 58204 58206 58208 58210 58212 58214 58218 58220 58222 58225 58227 58228 58229 58231 58233 58235 58237 58238 58240 58243 58244 58249 58250 58251 58254 58256 58258 58259 58260 58261 58262 58265 58266 58267 58269 58270 58271 58272 58273 58275 58276 58277 58278 58282 58301 58317 58321 58324 58327 58330 58331 58332 58335 58338 58343 58344 58345 58346 58348 58351 58356 58357 58361 58370 58374 58377 58379 58380 58381 58382 58386 58416 58425 58443 58464
Performance Measures for ALTRU'S 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 | 88.4% |
How Often The Home Health Team Determined Whether Patients Received A Flu Shot For The Current Flu Season | 71.9% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Walking Or Moving Around | 80% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Getting In And Out Of Bed | 87.1% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Bathing | 81.9% |
How Often Patients' Breathing Improved | 85.5% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Taking Their Drugs Correctly By Mouth | 80.5% |
How Often Home Health Patients Had To Be Admitted To The Hospital | 14.7% |
How Often Patients Receiving Home Health Care Needed Urgent, Unplanned Care In The ER Without Being Admitted | 15.2% |
Patient Survey Responses for ALTRU'S 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 ALTRU'S 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 | 86% (Nat: 86%) Lower |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported That Their Home Health Team Discussed Medicines, Pain, And Home Safety With Them | 91% (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) | 82% (Nat: 85%) Lower |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported YES, They Would Definitely Recommend The Home Health Agency To Friends And Family | 85% (Nat: 78%) Higher |
Medical Professionals Associated with ALTRU'S HOME HEALTH
These are the doctors who are affiliated with ALTRU'S HOME HEALTH.
- ERIC PEARSON ( FAMILY PRACTICE - SANFORD MEDICAL CENTER FARGO )
- ALLAN NIELSEN ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM )
- JAWAD KHAN ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - SANFORD HEALTH NETWORK NORTH )
- JOSHUA DEERE ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM )
- JESSICA LARSON ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - TOWNER COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER INC )
- DARLENE KELLY ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - NELSON COUNTY HEALTH SYSTEM )
- KARLA PARKES ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - CAVALIER COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION )
- DEREK LYSTE ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM )
- BENJAMIN ROTH ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM )
- DIANE VOELLER ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM )
- ALICIA MACK ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - SPECTRA HEALTH )
- JAMES ROED ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM )
- JARED MARQUARDT ( EMERGENCY MEDICINE - CHRISTIAN UNITY HOSPITAL CORPORATION )
- SUSAN THOMPSON ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - PEMBINA COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION )
- YVONNE GOMEZ ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM )
- KIRSTEN PETERSON ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - SANFORD MEDICAL CENTER FARGO )
- CONDETTA NESS ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - NORTHWOOD DEACONESS HEALTH CENTER )
- MICHELLE WOINAROWICZ ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - WARREN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC )
- BENEDICT MALINAO ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM )
- TYSON HOLM ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM )
- JENNIFER BYFUGLIEN ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM )
- ROBERTO MORALEDA ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM )
- WILLIAM ZAKS ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM )
- TAMMIE HARDER ( PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT - CHRISTIAN UNITY HOSPITAL CORPORATION )
- ANTHONY DUNCAN ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM )
- MATTHEW VISCITO ( FAMILY PRACTICE - CHRISTIAN UNITY HOSPITAL CORPORATION )
- JOEL JOHNSON ( FAMILY PRACTICE - P R HEALTH CORPORATION )
- JEFFREY EICKMAN ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM )
- KHALED RABADI ( NEPHROLOGY - KIDNEY AND HYPERTENSION PLC )
- JOEL WALZ ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM )
- CHRISTOPHER WAIND ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM )
- JON BRADBURY ( FAMILY PRACTICE - SANFORD MEDICAL CENTER FARGO )
- ANDREW GASPARINI ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM )
- PAUL CHAN ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM )
- ANDRES MAKAREM ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - HARTFORD HEALTHCARE MEDICAL GROUP INC )
- HEIDI PHILPOT ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM )
- KRISTI MIDGARDEN ( FAMILY PRACTICE - CHRISTIAN UNITY HOSPITAL CORPORATION )
- CHRISTEN MURRAY ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM )
- SHANTA GAUTHAM ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM )
- AMANDA ARNESON ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM )
- ANN MASON ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - SANFORD MEDICAL CENTER FARGO )
- KELLY LEIPHON ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM )
- LISA JAMSA TOLLEFSON ( FAMILY PRACTICE - SANFORD MEDICAL CENTER FARGO )
- ELIZABETH GRAY ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM )