Specialty Home Health Care Inc
331 kimber ln dept aEvansvilleIN47715
4 Star CMS Rating
82%
Patient Recommended
4 Star Patient Rating
Services
Types of services offered to patients
| Offers Nursing Care Services | |
| Offers Home Health Aide Services | |
| Offers Physical Therapy Services | |
| Offers Occupational Therapy Services | |
| Offers Speech Pathology Services | |
| Offers Medical Social Services | 
Ratings
HHCAHPS Survey Result Star Ratings
| 4 | HHCAHPS Survey Summary Star Rating  | 
| 4 | Star Rating for health team gave care in a professional way  | 
| 88 | Percent of patients who reported that their home health team communicated well with them  | 
| 4 | Star Rating for health team communicated well with them  | 
| 88 | Percent of patients who reported that their home health team communicated well with them  | 
| 4 | Star Rating team discussed medicines, pain, and home safety  | 
| 83 | Percent of patients who reported that their home health team discussed medicines, pain, and home safety with them  | 
| 4 | Star Rating for how patients rated overall care from agency  | 
| 87 | Percent of patients who gave their home health agency a rating of 9 or 10 on a scale from 0 (lowest) to 10 (highest)  | 
| 82 | Percent of patients who reported YES, they would definitely recommend the home health agency to friends and family  | 
| 185 | Number of completed surveys  | 
| 30 | Response rate  | 
Quality Measures
HHCAHPS Process Quality Measures
| 100 | How often the home health team began their patients' care in a timely manner  | 
| 100 | How often the home health team taught patients (or their family caregivers) about their drugs  | 
| 100 | How often the home health team checked patients' risk of falling  | 
| 100 | How often the home health team checked patients for depression  | 
| 95.4 | How often the home health team determined whether patients received a flu shot for the current flu season  | 
| 99.3 | How often the home health team made sure that their patients received a pneumococcal vaccine (pneumonia shot)  | 
| 100 | With diabetes, how often the home health team got doctor's orders, gave foot care, and taught patients about foot care  | 
| 88.3 | How often patients got better at walking or moving around  | 
| 88.9 | How often patients got better at getting in and out of bed  | 
| 90.8 | How often patients got better at bathing  | 
| 83.7 | How often patients' breathing improved  | 
| 91.3 | How often patients' wounds improved or healed after an operation  | 
| 87.3 | How often patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth  | 
| 16 | 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  | 
| 100 | How often physician-recommended actions to address medication issues were completely timely  | 
| n/a | Changes in skin integrity post-acute care: pressure ulcer/injury  | 
Patient Outcome Statistics
Rates of Discharge to Community and Potentially Preventable Readmissions
| 815 | Observed Number of Discharges to Community  | 
| 1,019 | Number of Eligible Stays for DTC Measure  | 
| 79.98 | Observed Discharge to Community Rate  | 
| 87.14 | Risk-Standardized Discharge to Community Rate  | 
| 84.51 | Lower Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Discharge to Community Rate  | 
| 1 | DTC Comparative Performance Category Better Than National Rate  | 
| 21 | Observed Number of Potentially Preventable Readmissions Following Discharge  | 
| 509 | Number of Eligible Stays for PPR Measure  | 
| 4.13 | Observed Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate  | 
| 3.71 | Risk-Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate  | 
| 2.76 | Lower Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate  | 
| 4.77 | Upper Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate  | 
| 2 | PPR Comparative Performance Category Same As National Rate  | 
| 1.16 | How much Medicare spends on an episode of care at this agency, compared to Medicare spending across all agencies nationally  | 
| 1,219 | Number of episodes of care used to calculate how much Medicare spends on an episode of care at this agency, compared to Medicare spending across all agencies nationally  | 
Service Area
Areas Served by the Home Health Agency
| Boonville, IN | 47601  | 
| Chandler, IN | 47610  | 
| Chrisney, IN | 47611  | 
| Cynthiana, IN | 47612  | 
| Elberfeld, IN | 47613  | 
| Evansville, IN | 47710, 47711, 47712, 47713, 47714, 47715, 47720, 47725  | 
| Fort Branch, IN | 47648  | 
| Francisco, IN | 47649  | 
| Haubstadt, IN | 47639  | 
| Hazleton, IN | 47640  | 
| Lynnville, IN | 47619  | 
| Mount Vernon, IN | 47620  | 
| New Harmony, IN | 47631  | 
| Newburgh, IN | 47630  | 
| Oakland City, IN | 47660  | 
| Owensville, IN | 47665  | 
| Patoka, IN | 47666  | 
| Petersburg, IN | 47567  | 
| Poseyville, IN | 47633  | 
| Princeton, IN | 47670  | 
| Richland, IN | 47634  | 
| Rockport, IN | 47635  | 
| Tennyson, IN | 47637  | 
| Wadesville, IN | 47638  | 
| Winslow, IN | 47598  |