KLARUS HOME CARE: Ratings, Survey Results, and Analysis
CMS Five Star Rating (4 out of 5): , Patient Recommendation: 76%
903 N BOWSER ROAD SUITE 156 RICHARDSON, TX 75081
817-349-9050
Data date: Jan 17, 2024
The Most Important Data about KLARUS HOME CARE
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 KLARUS HOME CARE is 4 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 62% of its customers. This is LOWER than the national average. The percentage of patients who gave KLARUS HOME CARE a rating of 9 or 10 was 76%. This is LOWER than the national average. The agency has been participating in Medicare since 06/29/2010. The agency costs MORE than the average agency nationally. The agency serves 139 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 KLARUS HOME CARE, 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 KLARUS HOME CARE
Data as of Jan 17, 2024
Address:
903 N BOWSER ROAD SUITE 156
RICHARDSON, TX 75081
Medicare Provider Number: 747397
Participating in Medicare Since: June 29, 2010
Ownership Type: PROPRIETARY
Cost compared to national average: 105%
DTC Performance for KLARUS HOME CARE
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 KLARUS HOME CARE.
Home Health Care Services
KLARUS HOME CARE 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 KLARUS HOME CARE
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: |
HHCAHPS Survey Summary Star Rating | 2: |
Star Rating For Health Team Gave Care In A Professional Way | 3: |
Star Rating For Health Team Communicated Well With Them | 2: |
Star Rating Team Discussed Medicines, Pain, And Home Safety | 3: |
Star Rating For How Patients Rated Overall Care From Agency | 1: |
Service Area Covered by KLARUS HOME CARE
KLARUS HOME CARE provides home health care services in these zip codes.
75002 75006 75007 75009 75010 75013 75019 75022 75023 75024 75025 75028 75032 75033 75034 75035 75038 75040 75041 75042 75043 75044 75048 75050 75051 75052 75054 75056 75057 75060 75061 75062 75063 75065 75067 75068 75069 75070 75071 75072 75074 75075 75077 75080 75081 75082 75087 75088 75089 75093 75094 75098 75103 75104 75109 75110 75115 75116 75126 75134 75142 75143 75144 75146 75148 75149 75150 75154 75156 75159 75160 75161 75169 75172 75180 75181 75182 75189 75203 75204 75205 75206 75208 75209 75210 75211 75212 75214 75215 75216 75217 75218 75219 75220 75223 75224 75225 75226 75227 75228 75229 75230 75231 75232 75233 75234 75235 75237 75238 75240 75241 75243 75248 75249 75251 75252 75253 75254 75287 75390 75402 75454 75474 75701 75702 75703 75705 75707 75750 75752 75754 75762 75765 75770 75801 75803 75861 76210 76262
Performance Measures for KLARUS HOME CARE
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 | 93.1% |
How Often The Home Health Team Determined Whether Patients Received A Flu Shot For The Current Flu Season | 84.6% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Walking Or Moving Around | 89.8% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Getting In And Out Of Bed | 88.3% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Bathing | 93.9% |
How Often Patients' Breathing Improved | 87.5% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Taking Their Drugs Correctly By Mouth | 91.4% |
How Often Home Health Patients Had To Be Admitted To The Hospital | 12.3% |
How Often Patients Receiving Home Health Care Needed Urgent, Unplanned Care In The ER Without Being Admitted | 8.2% |
Patient Survey Responses for KLARUS HOME CARE
Below is information compiled by CMS on the percentage of patients who respond to specific treatments and a comparison of the results for KLARUS HOME CARE 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 | 79% (Nat: 86%) Lower |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported That Their Home Health Team Discussed Medicines, Pain, And Home Safety With Them | 75% (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) | 76% (Nat: 85%) Lower |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported YES, They Would Definitely Recommend The Home Health Agency To Friends And Family | 62% (Nat: 78%) Lower |
Medical Professionals Associated with KLARUS HOME CARE
These are the doctors who are affiliated with KLARUS HOME CARE.
- RHEA COOK ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - ACCESS 360 CARE INC )
- ROBERT ISRAEL ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - HEALTHTEXAS PROVIDER NETWORK )
- AMBER SNIDER ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - ARGYLE HEALTH SERVICES, PLLC )
- PAUL ALUKAL ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - HEALTHTEXAS PROVIDER NETWORK )
- CORINTHIA MCLEROY ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - HOSPITALIST MEDICINE PHYSICIANS OF TEXAS PLLC )
- IRWIN KORNGUT ( INTERNAL MEDICINE )
- NAMIRAH JAMSHED ( GERIATRIC MEDICINE - UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER )
- JULIE LYONS ( NURSE PRACTITIONER )
- BRUCE ACKERMAN ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - LEGACY HEALTHCARE SERVICES INC )