Total Home Health Services Inc
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 |
| 87 | Percent of patients who reported that their home health team communicated well with them |
| 3 | Star Rating for health team communicated well with them |
| 82 | 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 |
| 83 | 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 |
| 166 | Number of completed surveys |
| 41 | Response rate |
Quality Measures
HHCAHPS Process Quality Measures
| 78 | How often the home health team began their patients' care in a timely manner |
| 98.4 | How often the home health team taught patients (or their family caregivers) about their drugs |
| 99.8 | How often the home health team checked patients' risk of falling |
| 88.9 | How often the home health team checked patients for depression |
| 64 | How often the home health team determined whether patients received a flu shot for the current flu season |
| 71.7 | How often the home health team made sure that their patients received a pneumococcal vaccine (pneumonia shot) |
| 99.6 | With diabetes, how often the home health team got doctor's orders, gave foot care, and taught patients about foot care |
| 65.3 | How often patients got better at walking or moving around |
| 68.2 | How often patients got better at getting in and out of bed |
| 65.5 | How often patients got better at bathing |
| 61.8 | How often patients' breathing improved |
| 81.7 | How often patients' wounds improved or healed after an operation |
| 34.1 | How often patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth |
| 17.8 | How often home health patients had to be admitted to the hospital |
| 14.5 | How often patients receiving home health care needed urgent, unplanned care in the ER without being admitted |
| 97.6 | How often physician-recommended actions to address medication issues were completely timely |
| 0.09 | Changes in skin integrity post-acute care: pressure ulcer/injury |
Patient Outcome Statistics
Rates of Discharge to Community and Potentially Preventable Readmissions
| 288 | Observed Number of Discharges to Community |
| 402 | Number of Eligible Stays for DTC Measure |
| 71.64 | Observed Discharge to Community Rate |
| 80.42 | Risk-Standardized Discharge to Community Rate |
| 75.66 | Lower Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Discharge to Community Rate |
| 2 | DTC Comparative Performance Category Same As National Rate |
| 7 | Observed Number of Potentially Preventable Readmissions Following Discharge |
| 199 | Number of Eligible Stays for PPR Measure |
| 3.52 | Observed Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 3.35 | Risk-Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 2.5 | Lower Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 4.63 | Upper Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 2 | PPR Comparative Performance Category Same As National Rate |
| 1.2 | How much Medicare spends on an episode of care at this agency, compared to Medicare spending across all agencies nationally |
| 678 | 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
| Cedar Lake, IN | 46303 |
| Crown Point, IN | 46307 |
| Dyer, IN | 46311 |
| East Chicago, IN | 46312 |
| Elkhart, IN | 46514, 46516, 46517 |
| Gary, IN | 46402, 46403, 46404, 46406, 46407, 46408, 46409 |
| Goshen, IN | 46526, 46528 |
| Granger, IN | 46530 |
| Griffith, IN | 46319 |
| Hammond, IN | 46320, 46323, 46324, 46327 |
| Hebron, IN | 46341 |
| Highland, IN | 46322 |
| Hobart, IN | 46342 |
| Lakeville, IN | 46536 |
| Lowell, IN | 46356 |
| Merrillville, IN | 46410 |
| Mishawaka, IN | 46544, 46545 |
| Munster, IN | 46321 |
| Notre Dame, IN | 46556 |
| Osceola, IN | 46561 |
| Portage, IN | 46368 |
| Saint John, IN | 46373 |
| Schererville, IN | 46375 |
| South Bend, IN | 46601, 46613, 46614, 46615, 46616, 46617, 46619, 46628, 46635, 46637 |
| Whiting, IN | 46394 |