GUARDIAN HEALTHCARE: Ratings, Survey Results, and Analysis
CMS Five Star Rating (4 out of 5): , Patient Recommendation: 86%
1411 MEMORIAL DRIVE, SUITE A BRYAN, TX 77802
979-774-7770
Data date: Jan 17, 2024
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 84% of its customers. This is HIGHER than the national average. The percentage of patients who gave GUARDIAN HEALTHCARE a rating of 9 or 10 was 86%. This is HIGHER than the national average. The agency has been participating in Medicare since 08/03/1988. The agency costs LESS than the average agency nationally. The agency serves 141 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 GUARDIAN HEALTHCARE, 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 GUARDIAN HEALTHCARE
Data as of Jan 17, 2024
Address:
1411 MEMORIAL DRIVE, SUITE A
BRYAN, TX 77802
Medicare Provider Number: 677153
Participating in Medicare Since: August 03, 1988
Ownership Type: PROPRIETARY
Cost compared to national average: 98%
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 Same As 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.
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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.
Rating Type | Rating |
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5-Star Quality Rating | 4: |
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 | 4: |
Star Rating Team Discussed Medicines, Pain, And Home Safety | 4: |
Star Rating For How Patients Rated Overall Care From Agency | 4: |
Service Area Covered by GUARDIAN HEALTHCARE
GUARDIAN HEALTHCARE provides home health care services in these zip codes.
75101 75102 75105 75109 75110 75114 75119 75124 75125 75142 75143 75144 75147 75148 75151 75152 75153 75155 75156 75158 75159 75163 75751 75752 75831 75833 75835 75838 75840 75846 75848 75850 75851 75852 75859 75860 75862 76041 76556 76567 76623 76626 76629 76635 76636 76639 76641 76642 76648 76651 76653 76667 76670 76679 76681 76687 76693 77069 77301 77302 77303 77304 77305 77306 77316 77318 77320 77327 77328 77331 77334 77339 77340 77342 77351 77354 77355 77356 77357 77358 77359 77360 77362 77363 77364 77365 77367 77372 77373 77375 77378 77379 77380 77381 77382 77384 77385 77386 77388 77418 77426 77445 77532 77801 77802 77803 77805 77806 77807 77808 77830 77831 77833 77834 77835 77836 77837 77840 77842 77845 77850 77855 77856 77857 77859 77861 77863 77864 77865 77868 77871 77872 77873 77876 77878 77879 77880 78942 78946 78947 78948
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.
Question | Percentage |
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How Often Physician-recommended Actions To Address Medication Issues Were Completely Timely | 98.4% |
How Often The Home Health Team Determined Whether Patients Received A Flu Shot For The Current Flu Season | 81.5% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Walking Or Moving Around | 88.5% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Getting In And Out Of Bed | 93.5% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Bathing | 93.8% |
How Often Patients' Breathing Improved | 92.3% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Taking Their Drugs Correctly By Mouth | 86.7% |
How Often Home Health Patients Had To Be Admitted To The Hospital | 15.7% |
How Often Patients Receiving Home Health Care Needed Urgent, Unplanned Care In The ER Without Being Admitted | 12.8% |
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.
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 | 92% (Nat: 86%) Higher |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported That Their Home Health Team Discussed Medicines, Pain, And Home Safety With Them | 85% (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 | 84% (Nat: 78%) Higher |
Medical Professionals Associated with GUARDIAN HEALTHCARE
These are the doctors who are affiliated with GUARDIAN HEALTHCARE.
- DEEPAK PATEL ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - REGIONAL EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC )
- RONALD RODRIGUEZ ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - REGIONAL EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC )
- JERRY SIMMONS ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ARETE URGENT CARE PLLC )
- ANNE MARIE ESCHBERGER ( FAMILY PRACTICE - SCOTT AND WHITE CLINIC )
- KYLE SCARBOROUGH ( FAMILY PRACTICE - SCARBOROUGH FAMILY MEDICINE, PLLC )
- TIMOTHY MONTALVO ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - CERTIFIED NURSE PRACTITIONERS, PC )
- TOULA GLASS ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - REGIONAL EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC )
- BENNY WANG ( NEUROLOGY )
- JOHN SPARKS ( ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY - SELECT PHYSICAL THERAPY TEXAS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP )
- SYDNEY PAYNE ( PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT - SELECT PHYSICAL THERAPY TEXAS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP )
- RUSSEL BILES ( FAMILY PRACTICE - SCOTT AND WHITE CLINIC )