VITALCARING GROUP: Ratings, Survey Results, and Analysis
CMS Five Star Rating (3.5 out of 5): , Patient Recommendation: 86%
42268 VETERANS BLVD., HAMMOND, LA 70403
985-345-6343
Data date: Jan 17, 2024
The Most Important Data about VITALCARING GROUP
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The overall 5-star Rating for VITALCARING GROUP 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 80% of its customers. This is HIGHER than the national average. The percentage of patients who gave VITALCARING GROUP a rating of 9 or 10 was 86%. This is HIGHER than the national average. The agency has been participating in Medicare since 11/09/1999. The agency costs MORE than the average agency nationally. The agency serves 100 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.
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Below is everything shred of information that we can find about VITALCARING GROUP, 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 VITALCARING GROUP
Data as of Jan 17, 2024
Address:
42268 VETERANS BLVD.,
HAMMOND, LA 70403
Medicare Provider Number: 197763
Participating in Medicare Since: November 09, 1999
Ownership Type: PROPRIETARY
Cost compared to national average: 104%
DTC Performance for VITALCARING GROUP
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 VITALCARING GROUP.
Home Health Care Services
VITALCARING GROUP 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 VITALCARING GROUP
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 | 4: |
Star Rating For How Patients Rated Overall Care From Agency | 3: |
Service Area Covered by VITALCARING GROUP
VITALCARING GROUP provides home health care services in these zip codes.
70001 70002 70003 70005 70037 70043 70056 70058 70062 70065 70070 70072 70075 70094 70115 70117 70119 70121 70122 70123 70126 70128 70130 70131 70346 70401 70402 70403 70404 70420 70422 70426 70427 70431 70433 70434 70435 70436 70437 70438 70441 70442 70443 70444 70445 70446 70447 70448 70449 70450 70451 70452 70453 70454 70455 70456 70458 70460 70461 70462 70465 70466 70470 70471 70706 70711 70714 70726 70733 70734 70737 70739 70744 70754 70767 70769 70770 70774 70776 70778 70780 70785 70791 70802 70805 70806 70807 70808 70809 70810 70811 70812 70814 70815 70816 70817 70818 70819 70820 70836
Performance Measures for VITALCARING GROUP
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 | 97.3% |
How Often The Home Health Team Determined Whether Patients Received A Flu Shot For The Current Flu Season | 64% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Walking Or Moving Around | 88.2% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Getting In And Out Of Bed | 86.3% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Bathing | 87.8% |
How Often Patients' Breathing Improved | 79.9% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Taking Their Drugs Correctly By Mouth | 85.8% |
How Often Home Health Patients Had To Be Admitted To The Hospital | 14.9% |
How Often Patients Receiving Home Health Care Needed Urgent, Unplanned Care In The ER Without Being Admitted | 14.6% |
Patient Survey Responses for VITALCARING GROUP
Below is information compiled by CMS on the percentage of patients who respond to specific treatments and a comparison of the results for VITALCARING GROUP 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 | 90% (Nat: 88%) Higher |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported That Their Home Health Team Communicated Well With Them | 88% (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) | 86% (Nat: 85%) Higher |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported YES, They Would Definitely Recommend The Home Health Agency To Friends And Family | 80% (Nat: 78%) Higher |
Medical Professionals Associated with VITALCARING GROUP
These are the doctors who are affiliated with VITALCARING GROUP.
- MATTI PALO ( ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY - JOINT EFFORTS LLC )
- SUSAN ZACHARIA ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - NORTH OAKS MEDICAL CENTER LLC )
- KYLE CAULFIELD ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - INTERNAL MEDICINE CLINIC OF TANGIPAHOA, LLC )
- LORYN MATTHEWS ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - CURANA HEALTH OF LOUISIANA LLC )
- SCOTT PICOU ( FAMILY PRACTICE - INTERNAL MEDICINE CLINIC OF TANGIPAHOA, LLC )
- MEGAN WISSING ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - PERVEZ MUSSARAT MD PMC )
- JOSEPH DILEO ( PODIATRY - INTERNAL MEDICINE CLINIC OF TANGIPAHOA, LLC )
- MARY HOLZER ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - EAST JEFFERSON PHYSICIANS GROUP LLC )
- MARGARET WINKLER ( INTERNAL MEDICINE )
- RICHARD JEANSONNE ( FAMILY PRACTICE )
- ANTHONY ZERANGUE ( INTERNAL MEDICINE )
- LEONARD TREANOR ( FAMILY PRACTICE - INTERNAL MEDICINE CLINIC OF TANGIPAHOA, LLC )
- LOUIS HEBERT ( THORACIC SURGERY )
- DONNA BRANTON ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - SLR HOLDINGS LLC )
- JOHN BREAUX ( THORACIC SURGERY - EAST JEFFERSON PHYSICIANS GROUP LLC )
- DERRIS RAY ( FAMILY PRACTICE )
- BRANDON SIMON-DAVIS ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - OCHSNER CLINIC LLC )
- CHARLES DUCOMBS ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - NORTH OAKS PHYSICIAN GROUP LLC )
- GREGORY ALLEN ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ALLEN'S FAMILY PRACTICE CLINIC OF PONCHATOULA LLP )