Everystep
3 Star CMS Rating
80%
Patient Recommended
3 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
| 3 | 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 |
| 3 | Star Rating for health team communicated well with them |
| 84 | Percent of patients who reported that their home health team communicated well with them |
| 3 | Star Rating team discussed medicines, pain, and home safety |
| 81 | Percent of patients who reported that their home health team discussed medicines, pain, and home safety with them |
| 3 | Star Rating for how patients rated overall care from agency |
| 80 | Percent of patients who gave their home health agency a rating of 9 or 10 on a scale from 0 (lowest) to 10 (highest) |
| 80 | Percent of patients who reported YES, they would definitely recommend the home health agency to friends and family |
| 73 | Number of completed surveys |
| 44 | Response rate |
Quality Measures
HHCAHPS Process Quality Measures
| 88 | How often the home health team began their patients' care in a timely manner |
| 97.7 | How often the home health team taught patients (or their family caregivers) about their drugs |
| 99.2 | How often the home health team checked patients' risk of falling |
| 93.9 | How often the home health team checked patients for depression |
| 87.1 | How often the home health team determined whether patients received a flu shot for the current flu season |
| 94 | How often the home health team made sure that their patients received a pneumococcal vaccine (pneumonia shot) |
| 70.8 | With diabetes, how often the home health team got doctor's orders, gave foot care, and taught patients about foot care |
| 69.5 | How often patients got better at walking or moving around |
| 70.4 | How often patients got better at getting in and out of bed |
| 73.7 | How often patients got better at bathing |
| 60.3 | How often patients' breathing improved |
| n/a | How often patients' wounds improved or healed after an operation The number of patient episodes for this measure is too small to report. |
| 57 | How often patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth |
| 14 | How often home health patients had to be admitted to the hospital |
| 18.1 | How often patients receiving home health care needed urgent, unplanned care in the ER without being admitted |
| 98.5 | How often physician-recommended actions to address medication issues were completely timely |
| 0.18 | Changes in skin integrity post-acute care: pressure ulcer/injury |
Patient Outcome Statistics
Rates of Discharge to Community and Potentially Preventable Readmissions
| 274 | Observed Number of Discharges to Community |
| 325 | Number of Eligible Stays for DTC Measure |
| 84.31 | Observed Discharge to Community Rate |
| 87.32 | Risk-Standardized Discharge to Community Rate |
| 83.44 | Lower Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Discharge to Community Rate |
| 1 | DTC Comparative Performance Category Better Than National Rate |
| 11 | Observed Number of Potentially Preventable Readmissions Following Discharge |
| 171 | Number of Eligible Stays for PPR Measure |
| 6.43 | Observed Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 4.07 | Risk-Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 3.01 | Lower Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 5.49 | 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 |
| 372 | 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
| Adair, IA | 50002 |
| Afton, IA | 50830 |
| Blockton, IA | 50836 |
| Bridgewater, IA | 50837 |
| Clearfield, IA | 50840 |
| Corning, IA | 50841 |
| Creston, IA | 50801 |
| Diagonal, IA | 50845 |
| Earlham, IA | 50072 |
| Ellston, IA | 50074 |
| Fontanelle, IA | 50846 |
| Garden Grove, IA | 50103 |
| Grand River, IA | 50108 |
| Greenfield, IA | 50849 |
| Kellerton, IA | 50133 |
| Lamoni, IA | 50140 |
| Lenox, IA | 50851 |
| Leon, IA | 50144 |
| Lorimor, IA | 50149 |
| Macksburg, IA | 50155 |
| Mount Ayr, IA | 50854 |
| Murray, IA | 50174 |
| Orient, IA | 50858 |
| Osceola, IA | 50213 |
| Patterson, IA | 50218 |
| Prescott, IA | 50859 |
| Stuart, IA | 50250 |
| Thayer, IA | 50254 |
| Tingley, IA | 50863 |
| Van Wert, IA | 50262 |
| Winterset, IA | 50273 |
| Woodburn, IA | 50275 |