Mercyone Waterloo Home Health Care
5 Star CMS Rating
89%
Patient Recommended
5 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
| 5 | HHCAHPS Survey Summary Star Rating |
| 5 | Star Rating for health team gave care in a professional way |
| 93 | Percent of patients who reported that their home health team communicated well with them |
| 4 | Star Rating for health team communicated well with them |
| 85 | Percent of patients who reported that their home health team communicated well with them |
| 5 | Star Rating team discussed medicines, pain, and home safety |
| 93 | Percent of patients who reported that their home health team discussed medicines, pain, and home safety with them |
| 5 | Star Rating for how patients rated overall care from agency |
| 93 | Percent of patients who gave their home health agency a rating of 9 or 10 on a scale from 0 (lowest) to 10 (highest) |
| 89 | Percent of patients who reported YES, they would definitely recommend the home health agency to friends and family |
| 127 | Number of completed surveys |
| 38 | Response rate |
Quality Measures
HHCAHPS Process Quality Measures
| 99.3 | 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 |
| 77.8 | How often the home health team determined whether patients received a flu shot for the current flu season |
| 90.6 | How often the home health team made sure that their patients received a pneumococcal vaccine (pneumonia shot) |
| 99 | With diabetes, how often the home health team got doctor's orders, gave foot care, and taught patients about foot care |
| 78 | How often patients got better at walking or moving around |
| 85.2 | How often patients got better at getting in and out of bed |
| 83.9 | How often patients got better at bathing |
| 87.4 | How often patients' breathing improved |
| 90.9 | How often patients' wounds improved or healed after an operation |
| 73.6 | How often patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth |
| 8.3 | How often home health patients had to be admitted to the hospital |
| 12.8 | How often patients receiving home health care needed urgent, unplanned care in the ER without being admitted |
| 96.3 | How often physician-recommended actions to address medication issues were completely timely |
| 0.69 | Changes in skin integrity post-acute care: pressure ulcer/injury |
Patient Outcome Statistics
Rates of Discharge to Community and Potentially Preventable Readmissions
| 290 | Observed Number of Discharges to Community |
| 321 | Number of Eligible Stays for DTC Measure |
| 90.34 | Observed Discharge to Community Rate |
| 92.82 | Risk-Standardized Discharge to Community Rate |
| 89.56 | Lower Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Discharge to Community Rate |
| 1 | DTC Comparative Performance Category Better Than National Rate |
| 12 | Observed Number of Potentially Preventable Readmissions Following Discharge |
| 327 | Number of Eligible Stays for PPR Measure |
| 3.67 | Observed Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 3.61 | Risk-Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 2.62 | Lower Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 4.94 | Upper Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 2 | PPR Comparative Performance Category Same As National Rate |
| 0.87 | How much Medicare spends on an episode of care at this agency, compared to Medicare spending across all agencies nationally |
| 376 | 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 Falls, IA | 50613 |
| Denver, IA | 50622 |
| Dike, IA | 50624 |
| Dunkerton, IA | 50626 |
| Dysart, IA | 52224 |
| Evansdale, IA | 50707 |
| Fairbank, IA | 50629 |
| Gilbertville, IA | 50634 |
| Hazleton, IA | 50641 |
| Hudson, IA | 50643 |
| Independence, IA | 50644 |
| Janesville, IA | 50647 |
| Jesup, IA | 50648 |
| La Porte City, IA | 50651 |
| Morrison, IA | 50657 |
| New Hartford, IA | 50660 |
| Oelwein, IA | 50662 |
| Reinbeck, IA | 50669 |
| Traer, IA | 50675 |
| Waterloo, IA | 50701, 50702, 50703, 50704 |
| Waverly, IA | 50677 |