BIG COUNTRY HEALTHCARE SERVICES: Ratings, Survey Results, and Analysis
CMS Five Star Rating (4.5 out of 5): , Patient Recommendation: Not Available%
749 GATEWAY ST. BUILDING F SUITE 702 ABILENE, TX 79602
325-675-0559
Data date: Jan 17, 2024
The Most Important Data about BIG COUNTRY HEALTHCARE SERVICES
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 BIG COUNTRY HEALTHCARE SERVICES 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 has been participating in Medicare since 10/31/2006. The agency costs LESS than the average agency nationally. The agency serves 58 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 BIG COUNTRY HEALTHCARE SERVICES, 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 BIG COUNTRY HEALTHCARE SERVICES
Data as of Jan 17, 2024
Address:
749 GATEWAY ST. BUILDING F SUITE 702
ABILENE, TX 79602
Medicare Provider Number: 679576
Participating in Medicare Since: October 31, 2006
Ownership Type: PROPRIETARY
Cost compared to national average: 97%
DTC Performance for BIG COUNTRY HEALTHCARE SERVICES
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 BIG COUNTRY HEALTHCARE SERVICES.
Home Health Care Services
BIG COUNTRY HEALTHCARE SERVICES offers 6 of 6 services tracked by CMS. A list showing the services offered and not offered is shown below.
Services Offered | Services Not Offered |
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Ratings for BIG COUNTRY HEALTHCARE SERVICES
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 |
Not Available |
Star Rating For Health Team Gave Care In A Professional Way |
Not Available |
Star Rating For Health Team Communicated Well With Them |
Not Available |
Star Rating Team Discussed Medicines, Pain, And Home Safety |
Not Available |
Star Rating For How Patients Rated Overall Care From Agency |
Not Available |
Service Area Covered by BIG COUNTRY HEALTHCARE SERVICES
BIG COUNTRY HEALTHCARE SERVICES provides home health care services in these zip codes.
76424 76432 76435 76437 76442 76443 76444 76448 76464 76470 76471 76801 76802 76804 76821 76827 76834 76857 76878 76890 76945 79501 79502 79503 79504 79506 79508 79510 79512 79520 79521 79525 79526 79529 79532 79533 79535 79536 79541 79543 79545 79546 79547 79548 79549 79553 79556 79561 79562 79563 79566 79567 79601 79602 79603 79605 79606 79608
Performance Measures for BIG COUNTRY HEALTHCARE SERVICES
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 | 98.8% |
How Often The Home Health Team Determined Whether Patients Received A Flu Shot For The Current Flu Season | 46.9% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Walking Or Moving Around | 91.3% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Getting In And Out Of Bed | 100% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Bathing | 97.9% |
How Often Patients' Breathing Improved | 92.2% |
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 | 11.1% |
How Often Patients Receiving Home Health Care Needed Urgent, Unplanned Care In The ER Without Being Admitted | 7.7% |
Patient Survey Responses for BIG COUNTRY HEALTHCARE SERVICES
Below is information compiled by CMS on the percentage of patients who respond to specific treatments and a comparison of the results for BIG COUNTRY HEALTHCARE SERVICES 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 | Not Available% (Nat: 88%) Lower |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported That Their Home Health Team Communicated Well With Them | Not Available% (Nat: 86%) Lower |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported That Their Home Health Team Discussed Medicines, Pain, And Home Safety With Them | Not Available% (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) | Not Available% (Nat: 85%) Lower |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported YES, They Would Definitely Recommend The Home Health Agency To Friends And Family | Not Available% (Nat: 78%) Lower |
Medical Professionals Associated with BIG COUNTRY HEALTHCARE SERVICES
These are the doctors who are affiliated with BIG COUNTRY HEALTHCARE SERVICES.
- PATRICK BRUTON ( PODIATRY - PRIVIA MEDICAL GROUP WEST TEXAS, PLLC )