ICARE HOME HEALTH: Ratings, Survey Results, and Analysis
CMS Five Star Rating (3.5 out of 5): , Patient Recommendation: 83%
5962 N LINCOLN AVE, STE 3 CHICAGO, IL 60659
773-334-2515
Data date: Jan 17, 2024
The Most Important Data about ICARE 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 ICARE 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 64% of its customers. This is LOWER than the national average. The percentage of patients who gave ICARE HOME HEALTH a rating of 9 or 10 was 83%. This is LOWER than the national average. The agency has been participating in Medicare since 11/12/2008. The agency costs LESS than the average agency nationally. The agency serves 123 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 ICARE 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 ICARE HOME HEALTH
Data as of Jan 17, 2024
Address:
5962 N LINCOLN AVE, STE 3
CHICAGO, IL 60659
Medicare Provider Number: 148039
Participating in Medicare Since: November 12, 2008
Ownership Type: PROPRIETARY
Cost compared to national average: 87%
DTC Performance for ICARE 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 Worse Than National Rate for ICARE HOME HEALTH.
Home Health Care Services
ICARE 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 ICARE 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 | 3: |
Star Rating For Health Team Gave Care In A Professional Way | 2: |
Star Rating For Health Team Communicated Well With Them | 2: |
Star Rating Team Discussed Medicines, Pain, And Home Safety | 4: |
Star Rating For How Patients Rated Overall Care From Agency | 2: |
Service Area Covered by ICARE HOME HEALTH
ICARE HOME HEALTH provides home health care services in these zip codes.
60026 60046 60060 60061 60101 60103 60107 60130 60153 60154 60155 60188 60191 60302 60304 60305 60401 60402 60403 60406 60409 60411 60415 60417 60418 60419 60423 60425 60426 60428 60429 60431 60433 60435 60436 60438 60439 60441 60443 60445 60446 60448 60449 60451 60452 60453 60455 60457 60458 60459 60461 60462 60463 60464 60465 60466 60467 60469 60475 60477 60478 60480 60482 60484 60487 60491 60502 60506 60521 60525 60527 60542 60544 60561 60563 60564 60565 60585 60586 60603 60607 60608 60609 60612 60613 60615 60616 60617 60619 60620 60621 60623 60625 60626 60628 60629 60630 60631 60632 60636 60637 60638 60639 60642 60643 60644 60645 60646 60647 60649 60651 60652 60653 60655 60659 60660 60706 60707 60803 60804 60805 60827 61111
Performance Measures for ICARE 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 | 95.9% |
How Often The Home Health Team Determined Whether Patients Received A Flu Shot For The Current Flu Season | 56.4% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Walking Or Moving Around | 80.5% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Getting In And Out Of Bed | 70.6% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Bathing | 82.8% |
How Often Patients' Breathing Improved | 96.1% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Taking Their Drugs Correctly By Mouth | 91.1% |
How Often Home Health Patients Had To Be Admitted To The Hospital | 14.6% |
How Often Patients Receiving Home Health Care Needed Urgent, Unplanned Care In The ER Without Being Admitted | 7.4% |
Patient Survey Responses for ICARE 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 ICARE 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 | 85% (Nat: 88%) Lower |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported That Their Home Health Team Communicated Well With Them | 85% (Nat: 86%) Lower |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported That Their Home Health Team Discussed Medicines, Pain, And Home Safety With Them | 81% (Nat: 82%) Lower |
Percent Of Patients Who Gave Their Home Health Agency A Rating Of 9 Or 10 On A Scale From 0 (lowest) To 10 (highest) | 83% (Nat: 85%) Lower |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported YES, They Would Definitely Recommend The Home Health Agency To Friends And Family | 64% (Nat: 78%) Lower |
Medical Professionals Associated with ICARE HOME HEALTH
These are the doctors who are affiliated with ICARE HOME HEALTH.
- CYNTHIA THOMAS ( INTERNAL MEDICINE )
- MIROSLAW PIOTROWSKI ( FAMILY PRACTICE - LEGACY HEALTHCARE SERVICES INC )
- VANESSA HAGAN ( INTERNAL MEDICINE )
- ANTHONY DEL PRIORE ( FAMILY PRACTICE - MEDICO LLC )
- EZEKIEL SAKYIAMA ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - MOUNT SINAI COMMUNITY FOUNDATION )
- SUSAN RIFE ( FAMILY PRACTICE - DR. SUSAN RIFE FAMILY MEDICINE SC )
- JOSEPH KOWALCZYK ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - ADULT PRIMARY CARE CENTER LTD )
- MARK REITER ( INTERNAL MEDICINE )
- F GERMINO ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - DUPAGE MEDICAL GROUP LTD )