Franciscan Home Care
4 Star CMS Rating
77%
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 |
| 90 | Percent of patients who reported that their home health team communicated well with them |
| 4 | Star Rating for health team communicated well with them |
| 87 | Percent of patients who reported that their home health team communicated well with them |
| 2 | Star Rating team discussed medicines, pain, and home safety |
| 78 | 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) |
| 77 | Percent of patients who reported YES, they would definitely recommend the home health agency to friends and family |
| 538 | Number of completed surveys |
| 24 | Response rate |
Quality Measures
HHCAHPS Process Quality Measures
| 92.6 | How often the home health team began their patients' care in a timely manner |
| 99.5 | How often the home health team taught patients (or their family caregivers) about their drugs |
| 99.6 | How often the home health team checked patients' risk of falling |
| 99.5 | How often the home health team checked patients for depression |
| 76.2 | How often the home health team determined whether patients received a flu shot for the current flu season |
| 81.9 | How often the home health team made sure that their patients received a pneumococcal vaccine (pneumonia shot) |
| 97.8 | With diabetes, how often the home health team got doctor's orders, gave foot care, and taught patients about foot care |
| 76.6 | How often patients got better at walking or moving around |
| 76.6 | How often patients got better at getting in and out of bed |
| 79.4 | How often patients got better at bathing |
| 85.2 | How often patients' breathing improved |
| 92.3 | How often patients' wounds improved or healed after an operation |
| 68.6 | How often patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth |
| 17.4 | How often home health patients had to be admitted to the hospital |
| 12.1 | How often patients receiving home health care needed urgent, unplanned care in the ER without being admitted |
| 97.8 | How often physician-recommended actions to address medication issues were completely timely |
| 0.28 | Changes in skin integrity post-acute care: pressure ulcer/injury |
Patient Outcome Statistics
Rates of Discharge to Community and Potentially Preventable Readmissions
| 2,004 | Observed Number of Discharges to Community |
| 2,581 | Number of Eligible Stays for DTC Measure |
| 77.64 | Observed Discharge to Community Rate |
| 81.7 | Risk-Standardized Discharge to Community Rate |
| 80.19 | Lower Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Discharge to Community Rate |
| 1 | DTC Comparative Performance Category Better Than National Rate |
| 71 | Observed Number of Potentially Preventable Readmissions Following Discharge |
| 1,733 | Number of Eligible Stays for PPR Measure |
| 4.1 | Observed Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 3.78 | Risk-Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 3.1 | Lower Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 4.53 | Upper Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 2 | PPR Comparative Performance Category Same As National Rate |
| 1.02 | How much Medicare spends on an episode of care at this agency, compared to Medicare spending across all agencies nationally |
| 3,156 | 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
| Calumet City, IL | 60409 |
| Chicago Heights, IL | 60411 |
| Beverly Shores, IN | 46301 |
| Cedar Lake, IN | 46303 |
| Chesterton, IN | 46304 |
| Crown Point, IN | 46307, 46308 |
| Demotte, IN | 46310 |
| Dyer, IN | 46311 |
| East Chicago, IN | 46312 |
| Gary, IN | 46401, 46402, 46403, 46404, 46406, 46407, 46408, 46409 |
| Griffith, IN | 46319 |
| Hammond, IN | 46320, 46323, 46324, 46327 |
| Hanna, IN | 46340 |
| Hebron, IN | 46341 |
| Highland, IN | 46322 |
| Hobart, IN | 46342 |
| Kingsbury, IN | 46345 |
| Kingsford Heights, IN | 46346 |
| Kouts, IN | 46347 |
| La Porte, IN | 46350, 46352 |
| Lake Station, IN | 46405 |
| Lake Village, IN | 46349 |
| Lowell, IN | 46356 |
| Merrillville, IN | 46410 |
| Michigan City, IN | 46360, 46361 |
| Mill Creek, IN | 46365 |
| Munster, IN | 46321 |
| New Carlisle, IN | 46552 |
| Portage, IN | 46368 |
| Rolling Prairie, IN | 46371 |
| Saint John, IN | 46373 |
| Schererville, IN | 46375 |
| Schneider, IN | 46376 |
| Sumava Resorts, IN | 46379 |
| Tefft, IN | 46380 |
| Thayer, IN | 46381 |
| Union Mills, IN | 46382 |
| Valparaiso, IN | 46383, 46385 |
| Walkerton, IN | 46574 |
| Wanatah, IN | 46390 |
| Westville, IN | 46391 |
| Whiting, IN | 46394 |