Dequincy Home Health
5 Star CMS Rating
85%
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 |
| 4 | Star Rating for health team gave care in a professional way |
| 89 | Percent of patients who reported that their home health team communicated well with them |
| 4 | Star Rating for health team communicated well with them |
| 86 | Percent of patients who reported that their home health team communicated well with them |
| 5 | Star Rating team discussed medicines, pain, and home safety |
| 87 | 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 |
| 91 | Percent of patients who gave their home health agency a rating of 9 or 10 on a scale from 0 (lowest) to 10 (highest) |
| 85 | Percent of patients who reported YES, they would definitely recommend the home health agency to friends and family |
| 71 | Number of completed surveys |
| 30 | Response rate |
Quality Measures
HHCAHPS Process Quality Measures
| 89.4 | How often the home health team began their patients' care in a timely manner |
| 98 | How often the home health team taught patients (or their family caregivers) about their drugs |
| 94 | How often the home health team checked patients' risk of falling |
| 93.6 | How often the home health team checked patients for depression |
| 61.4 | How often the home health team determined whether patients received a flu shot for the current flu season |
| 88.7 | How often the home health team made sure that their patients received a pneumococcal vaccine (pneumonia shot) |
| 94.4 | With diabetes, how often the home health team got doctor's orders, gave foot care, and taught patients about foot care |
| 63.3 | How often patients got better at walking or moving around |
| 70.2 | How often patients got better at getting in and out of bed |
| 64.2 | How often patients got better at bathing |
| 60 | 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. |
| 56.2 | How often patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth |
| 17.1 | How often home health patients had to be admitted to the hospital |
| 15.2 | How often patients receiving home health care needed urgent, unplanned care in the ER without being admitted |
| 94.5 | How often physician-recommended actions to address medication issues were completely timely |
| 0.11 | Changes in skin integrity post-acute care: pressure ulcer/injury |
Patient Outcome Statistics
Rates of Discharge to Community and Potentially Preventable Readmissions
| 96 | Observed Number of Discharges to Community |
| 185 | Number of Eligible Stays for DTC Measure |
| 51.89 | Observed Discharge to Community Rate |
| 55.85 | Risk-Standardized Discharge to Community Rate |
| 48.25 | Lower Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Discharge to Community Rate |
| 3 | DTC Comparative Performance Category Worse Than National Rate |
| 1 | Observed Number of Potentially Preventable Readmissions Following Discharge |
| 98 | Number of Eligible Stays for PPR Measure |
| 1.02 | Observed Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 3.21 | Risk-Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 2.28 | Lower Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 4.5 | Upper Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 2 | PPR Comparative Performance Category Same As National Rate |
| 0.9 | How much Medicare spends on an episode of care at this agency, compared to Medicare spending across all agencies nationally |
| 1,030 | 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
| Dequincy, LA | 70633 |
| Deridder, LA | 70634 |
| Dry Creek, LA | 70637 |
| Lake Charles, LA | 70601, 70605, 70607, 70611, 70615 |
| Longville, LA | 70652 |
| Merryville, LA | 70653 |
| Ragley, LA | 70657 |
| Reeves, LA | 70658 |
| Singer, LA | 70660 |
| Starks, LA | 70661 |
| Sulphur, LA | 70663, 70665 |
| Vinton, LA | 70668 |
| Westlake, LA | 70669 |