GUARDIAN HEALTHCARE: Ratings, Survey Results, and Analysis

The Most Important Data about GUARDIAN HEALTHCARE

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 GUARDIAN HEALTHCARE 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 76% of its customers. This is LOWER than the national average. The percentage of patients who gave GUARDIAN HEALTHCARE a rating of 9 or 10 was 83%. This is LOWER than the national average. The agency has been participating in Medicare since 11/17/1987. The agency costs LESS than the average agency nationally. The agency serves 281 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.

General Information on GUARDIAN HEALTHCARE

DTC Performance for GUARDIAN HEALTHCARE

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 GUARDIAN HEALTHCARE.

Home Health Care Services

GUARDIAN HEALTHCARE offers 6 of 6 services tracked by CMS. A list showing the services offered and not offered is shown below.

Ratings for GUARDIAN HEALTHCARE

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.

Service Area Covered by GUARDIAN HEALTHCARE

GUARDIAN HEALTHCARE provides home health care services in these zip codes.

75001 75002 75006 75007 75010 75013 75019 75022 75023 75024 75025 75027 75028 75029 75032 75033 75034 75035 75038 75039 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 75090 75093 75094 75098 75104 75106 75110 75114 75115 75116 75125 75126 75134 75137 75141 75142 75146 75149 75150 75152 75154 75159 75160 75161 75165 75166 75167 75168 75172 75173 75180 75181 75182 75189 75201 75202 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 75236 75237 75238 75240 75241 75242 75243 75244 75246 75247 75248 75249 75251 75252 75253 75254 75287 75407 75409 75442 76001 76002 76005 76006 76008 76009 76010 76011 76012 76013 76014 76015 76016 76017 76018 76020 76021 76022 76023 76028 76031 76033 76034 76035 76036 76039 76040 76041 76043 76044 76048 76049 76050 76051 76052 76053 76054 76055 76058 76059 76060 76061 76063 76064 76065 76066 76067 76070 76071 76073 76077 76078 76082 76084 76085 76086 76087 76088 76092 76093 76101 76102 76103 76104 76105 76106 76107 76108 76109 76110 76111 76112 76114 76115 76116 76117 76118 76119 76120 76123 76126 76131 76132 76133 76134 76135 76137 76140 76147 76148 76164 76177 76179 76180 76182 76201 76202 76203 76205 76207 76208 76209 76210 76226 76227 76234 76244 76247 76248 76249 76258 76259 76262 76266 76401 76433 76437 76439 76443 76445 76448 76453 76457 76462 76465 76470 76476 76484 76485 76487 76627 76636 76651 76652 76670 76690 79508 79510 79561 79601 79602 79603 79605 79606

Performance Measures for GUARDIAN HEALTHCARE

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.

Patient Survey Responses for GUARDIAN HEALTHCARE

Below is information compiled by CMS on the percentage of patients who respond to specific treatments and a comparison of the results for GUARDIAN HEALTHCARE to the national results for similar facilities.