NURSING SPECIALTIES: Ratings, Survey Results, and Analysis
CMS Five Star Rating (4.5 out of 5): , Patient Recommendation: 93%
1025 CAMELLIA BLVD LAFAYETTE, LA 70508
337-266-9996
Data date: Jan 17, 2024
The Most Important Data about NURSING SPECIALTIES
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 NURSING SPECIALTIES is 4.5 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 91% of its customers. This is HIGHER than the national average. The percentage of patients who gave NURSING SPECIALTIES a rating of 9 or 10 was 93%. This is HIGHER than the national average. The agency has been participating in Medicare since 03/15/1991. The agency costs MORE than the average agency nationally. The agency serves 67 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 NURSING SPECIALTIES, 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 NURSING SPECIALTIES
Data as of Jan 17, 2024
Address:
1025 CAMELLIA BLVD
LAFAYETTE, LA 70508
Medicare Provider Number: 197297
Participating in Medicare Since: March 15, 1991
Ownership Type: PROPRIETARY
Cost compared to national average: 103%
DTC Performance for NURSING SPECIALTIES
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 NURSING SPECIALTIES.
Home Health Care Services
NURSING SPECIALTIES 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 NURSING SPECIALTIES
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 | 4.5: |
HHCAHPS Survey Summary Star Rating | 5: |
Star Rating For Health Team Gave Care In A Professional Way | 5: |
Star Rating For Health Team Communicated Well With Them | 4: |
Star Rating Team Discussed Medicines, Pain, And Home Safety | 5: |
Star Rating For How Patients Rated Overall Care From Agency | 5: |
Service Area Covered by NURSING SPECIALTIES
NURSING SPECIALTIES provides home health care services in these zip codes.
70501 70503 70506 70507 70508 70510 70512 70513 70514 70515 70516 70517 70518 70519 70520 70521 70522 70523 70524 70525 70526 70527 70528 70529 70531 70532 70533 70534 70535 70537 70538 70541 70542 70543 70544 70546 70548 70549 70550 70551 70552 70554 70555 70556 70558 70559 70560 70562 70563 70570 70575 70576 70577 70578 70581 70582 70583 70584 70586 70589 70591 70592 70648 70655 70750 71353 71358
Performance Measures for NURSING SPECIALTIES
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 | 99.6% |
How Often The Home Health Team Determined Whether Patients Received A Flu Shot For The Current Flu Season | 93.1% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Walking Or Moving Around | 93.9% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Getting In And Out Of Bed | 91.1% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Bathing | 93.5% |
How Often Patients' Breathing Improved | 91.7% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Taking Their Drugs Correctly By Mouth | 90.3% |
How Often Home Health Patients Had To Be Admitted To The Hospital | 15.3% |
How Often Patients Receiving Home Health Care Needed Urgent, Unplanned Care In The ER Without Being Admitted | 11.8% |
Patient Survey Responses for NURSING SPECIALTIES
Below is information compiled by CMS on the percentage of patients who respond to specific treatments and a comparison of the results for NURSING SPECIALTIES 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 | 93% (Nat: 88%) Higher |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported That Their Home Health Team Communicated Well With Them | 92% (Nat: 86%) Higher |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported That Their Home Health Team Discussed Medicines, Pain, And Home Safety With Them | 88% (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) | 93% (Nat: 85%) Higher |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported YES, They Would Definitely Recommend The Home Health Agency To Friends And Family | 91% (Nat: 78%) Higher |
Medical Professionals Associated with NURSING SPECIALTIES
These are the doctors who are affiliated with NURSING SPECIALTIES.
- BRADLEY CHASTANT ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - LAFAYETTE HEALTH VENTURES INC )
- FERNANDO ALEMANY ( INTERNAL MEDICINE )
- FRANCINE MANUEL ( FAMILY PRACTICE - HAMILTON MEDICAL GROUP APC )
- JOHN RAINEY ( FAMILY PRACTICE - OPELOUSAS GENERAL HEALTH SYSTEM PHYSICIAN PRACTICES )
- JEANNE THERIOT ( FAMILY PRACTICE )
- SAMUEL SHUFFLER ( UROLOGY - SOUTHERN UROLOGY LLC )
- RICHARD HINES ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ACADIANA FAMILY PHYSICIANS, INC., A.P.M.C. )
- JUAN PAREDES ( GENERAL SURGERY )
- CLAUDE MEEKS ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ABBEVILLE GENERAL HOSPITAL )
- BRITNI HEBERT ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - LAFAYETTE INTERNAL MEDICINE CLINIC, LLC )
- NANCY WALKER ( FAMILY PRACTICE - CROWLEY PRIMARY CARE, LLC )
- BRENT ARDOIN ( INTERNAL MEDICINE )
- MARISSA GUIDRY ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - LAFAYETTE HEALTH VENTURES INC )
- AMY SCHUNEMEYER ( PODIATRY )
- JULIET CONDE ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - CLHG-ACADIAN LLC )
- RESHMA BHANUSHALI ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - LAFAYETTE HEALTH VENTURES INC )
- GERARD WILLIAMS ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - GERARD K. WILLIAMS MD APMC )
- ENRRIQUE MAYES ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - LAFAYETTE HEALTH VENTURES INC )
- EDWARD LYONS ( INTERNAL MEDICINE )
- CASSANDRA PILLETTE ( FAMILY PRACTICE - LAFAYETTE HEALTH VENTURES INC )
- KERI COPPONEX ( ANESTHESIOLOGY - LAFAYETTE HEALTH VENTURES INC )
- KENNETH MCCARRON ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - LAFAYETTE HEALTH VENTURES INC )
- DEBRA DURHAM ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - LAFAYETTE HEALTH VENTURES INC )
- KATHRYN DUPLANTIS ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - LAFAYETTE HEALTH VENTURES INC )
- NATHAN LANDRY ( FAMILY PRACTICE - HAMILTON MEDICAL GROUP APC )
- DAVID REED ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - CURANA HEALTH OF LOUISIANA LLC )
- ANGELA SNOW ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - LAFAYETTE HEALTH VENTURES INC )
- SHAUNA BIENVENU-OUBRE ( FAMILY PRACTICE - LAFAYETTE HEALTH VENTURES INC )
- KRISTEN LEBLANC ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - LOURDES PHYSICIAN GROUP LLC )
- RANDY DAIGLE ( FAMILY PRACTICE - SUNSET MEDICAL CLINIC LLC )
- DANA DICHARRY ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - LOURDES PHYSICIAN GROUP LLC )
- GARTH KING ( EMERGENCY MEDICINE - AMBASSADOR PHYSICIAN SERVICES LLC )
- KIRK ELLIOTT ( FAMILY PRACTICE - KIRK E ELLIOTT MD LLC )
- MICHAEL ALEXANDER ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - LAFAYETTE HEALTH VENTURES INC )
- WARTELLE CASTILLE ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - LOURDES PHYSICIAN GROUP LLC )
- SETH ROSENZWEIG ( ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY - CLA CARE OF LA II, LLC )
- TROY MARTIN ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ACADIANA FAMILY PHYSICIANS, INC., A.P.M.C. )
- JAMES MWATIBO ( FAMILY PRACTICE - LOURDES PHYSICIAN GROUP LLC )
- HEMENDRA MHADGUT ( MEDICAL ONCOLOGY - LAFAYETTE HEALTH VENTURES INC )
- MALCOLM STUBBS ( ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY - MALCOLM J STUBBS, MD, LLC )
- LAURA BRAHAM ( FAMILY PRACTICE - BATON ROUGE CLINIC, A MEDICAL CORPORATION )
- AMANDA HAYES ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - LOURDES PHYSICIAN GROUP LLC )
- JUAN PEREZ-RUIZ ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - LAFAYETTE HEALTH VENTURES INC )
- HENRY KAUFMAN ( GENERAL SURGERY - LOURDES PHYSICIAN GROUP LLC )
- JORGE BELGODERE-BONILLA ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - YOUNGSVILLE MEDICAL CLINIC )
- JAIME CORDOVA ( INTERNAL MEDICINE )
- DANIELA LEON JARRIN ( GENERAL SURGERY - LAFAYETTE HEALTH VENTURES INC )
- NICHOLAS GEORGE ( HOSPITALIST - LOURDES PHYSICIAN GROUP LLC )
- VERNON VALENTINO ( CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (CARDIOLOGY) - ABBEVILLE GENERAL HOSPITAL )
- KAREN SMITH ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - SW LOUISIANA INTERNAL MEDICINE LLC )
- RANDALL MILLER ( INTERNAL MEDICINE )
- JOSE MATA ( GENERAL PRACTICE - FMC ASSOCIATES OF NEW IBERIA )