ELARA CARING: Ratings, Survey Results, and Analysis
CMS Five Star Rating (4.5 out of 5): , Patient Recommendation: 89%
919 NORTH LAKE ARTHUR AVE UNIT H JENNINGS, LA 70546
337-824-5453
Data date: Jan 17, 2024
The Most Important Data about ELARA CARING
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 ELARA CARING 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 90% of its customers. This is HIGHER than the national average. The percentage of patients who gave ELARA CARING a rating of 9 or 10 was 89%. This is HIGHER than the national average. The agency has been participating in Medicare since 01/24/1995. The agency costs LESS than the average agency nationally. The agency serves 68 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 ELARA CARING, 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 ELARA CARING
Data as of Jan 17, 2024
Address:
919 NORTH LAKE ARTHUR AVE UNIT H
JENNINGS, LA 70546
Medicare Provider Number: 197679
Participating in Medicare Since: January 24, 1995
Ownership Type: PROPRIETARY
Cost compared to national average: 99%
DTC Performance for ELARA CARING
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 ELARA CARING.
Home Health Care Services
ELARA CARING 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 ELARA CARING
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 | 5: |
Star Rating Team Discussed Medicines, Pain, And Home Safety | 5: |
Star Rating For How Patients Rated Overall Care From Agency | 4: |
Service Area Covered by ELARA CARING
ELARA CARING provides home health care services in these zip codes.
70112 70114 70501 70503 70506 70507 70508 70510 70515 70517 70520 70525 70529 70531 70532 70535 70546 70548 70549 70556 70560 70570 70577 70578 70581 70582 70583 70591 70592 70601 70602 70605 70606 70607 70611 70615 70630 70631 70632 70633 70634 70640 70645 70646 70647 70648 70650 70651 70655 70657 70658 70660 70663 70664 70665 70668 70669 71106 71360 71403 71449 71463 71485 77061 77396 77520 77632 78155
Performance Measures for ELARA CARING
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% |
How Often The Home Health Team Determined Whether Patients Received A Flu Shot For The Current Flu Season | 36.4% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Walking Or Moving Around | 87.8% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Getting In And Out Of Bed | 89.2% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Bathing | 92.3% |
How Often Patients' Breathing Improved | 89.3% |
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 | 11% |
How Often Patients Receiving Home Health Care Needed Urgent, Unplanned Care In The ER Without Being Admitted | 17.6% |
Patient Survey Responses for ELARA CARING
Below is information compiled by CMS on the percentage of patients who respond to specific treatments and a comparison of the results for ELARA CARING 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 | 89% (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) | 89% (Nat: 85%) Higher |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported YES, They Would Definitely Recommend The Home Health Agency To Friends And Family | 90% (Nat: 78%) Higher |
Medical Professionals Associated with ELARA CARING
These are the doctors who are affiliated with ELARA CARING.
- BENJAMIN WILLIAMS ( FAMILY PRACTICE - IMPERIAL HEALTH LLP )
- SHERRIE EAKIN ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - OCHSNER CLINIC LLC )
- TAYLOR CLEMENTS ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - SWLHS INC. )
- RONALD LEWIS ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - SWLHS INC. )
- MARY SHERK ( FAMILY PRACTICE - LCMS REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA )
- MUHAMMAD SHAIKH ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - LCMS REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA )
- MARK LAFURIA ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - SWLHS INC. )
- STEVE SPRINGER ( FAMILY PRACTICE - IMPERIAL HEALTH LLP )
- BENJAMIN FONTENOT ( FAMILY PRACTICE - IMPERIAL HEALTH LLP )
- JODY GEORGE ( FAMILY PRACTICE - THE FAMILY CARE CENTER OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA, LLC )
- WILLIAM HEBERT ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - SWLHS INC. )
- ANDRES GUILLERMO ( FAMILY PRACTICE - IMPERIAL HEALTH LLP )
- JASON FUQUA ( FAMILY PRACTICE - CALCASIEU CAMERON HOSPITAL SERVICE DISTRICT )
- STEWART GREATHOUSE ( FAMILY PRACTICE - LAKE CHARLES MEDICAL SERVICES FAMILY PRACTICE ASSOCIATES, LLC )
- RYAN FORET ( FAMILY PRACTICE - LECHTENBERG AND FORET, LLC )
- JOHN GROVES ( FAMILY PRACTICE - LAKE CHARLES MEDICAL SERVICES FAMILY PRACTICE ASSOCIATES, LLC )
- JUDE AGENDIA ( FAMILY PRACTICE - KISATCHIE EMERGENCY GROUP LLC )
- JASON MORRIS ( FAMILY PRACTICE - IMPERIAL HEALTH LLP )
- YVONNE KRIELOW ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - THE CLINIC OF WELSH )
- DONALD HIGGINS ( FAMILY PRACTICE - LAKE CHARLES MEDICAL SERVICES FAMILY PRACTICE ASSOCIATES, LLC )
- ANDREW BRADBERRY ( FAMILY PRACTICE - IMPERIAL HEALTH LLP )
- JESSICA CHAUMONT ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - HEINEN MEDICAL CLINICS LLC )
- EDWARD HEBERT ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - SWLHS INC. )
- MAUREEN POE ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - GERIATRIC RESOURCES, INC )