Nurse on Call
512 main street, suite 211ShrewsburyMA01545
4 Star CMS Rating
76%
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
| 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 |
| 86 | Percent of patients who reported that their home health team communicated well with them |
| 3 | Star Rating team discussed medicines, pain, and home safety |
| 82 | 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 |
| 89 | Percent of patients who gave their home health agency a rating of 9 or 10 on a scale from 0 (lowest) to 10 (highest) |
| 76 | Percent of patients who reported YES, they would definitely recommend the home health agency to friends and family |
| 99 | Number of completed surveys |
| 18 | Response rate |
Quality Measures
HHCAHPS Process Quality Measures
| 98 | How often the home health team began their patients' care in a timely manner |
| 99.9 | 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 |
| 97.3 | How often the home health team checked patients for depression |
| 96 | How often the home health team determined whether patients received a flu shot for the current flu season |
| 93.6 | How often the home health team made sure that their patients received a pneumococcal vaccine (pneumonia shot) |
| 98.6 | With diabetes, how often the home health team got doctor's orders, gave foot care, and taught patients about foot care |
| 88.4 | How often patients got better at walking or moving around |
| 87.3 | How often patients got better at getting in and out of bed |
| 89.5 | How often patients got better at bathing |
| 89.1 | 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. |
| 80.7 | How often patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth |
| 20.3 | How often home health patients had to be admitted to the hospital |
| 15.8 | How often patients receiving home health care needed urgent, unplanned care in the ER without being admitted |
| 99 | How often physician-recommended actions to address medication issues were completely timely |
| 0.13 | Changes in skin integrity post-acute care: pressure ulcer/injury |
Patient Outcome Statistics
Rates of Discharge to Community and Potentially Preventable Readmissions
| 774 | Observed Number of Discharges to Community |
| 953 | Number of Eligible Stays for DTC Measure |
| 81.22 | Observed Discharge to Community Rate |
| 86.9 | Risk-Standardized Discharge to Community Rate |
| 84.16 | Lower Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Discharge to Community Rate |
| 1 | DTC Comparative Performance Category Better Than National Rate |
| 13 | Observed Number of Potentially Preventable Readmissions Following Discharge |
| 297 | Number of Eligible Stays for PPR Measure |
| 4.38 | Observed Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 3.57 | Risk-Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 2.62 | Lower Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 4.68 | Upper Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 2 | PPR Comparative Performance Category Same As National Rate |
| 1.13 | How much Medicare spends on an episode of care at this agency, compared to Medicare spending across all agencies nationally |
| 1,351 | 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
| Ashland, MA | 01721 |
| Attleboro, MA | 02703 |
| Attleboro Falls, MA | 02763 |
| Auburn, MA | 01501 |
| Clinton, MA | 01510 |
| Dedham, MA | 02026 |
| Douglas, MA | 01516 |
| Dudley, MA | 01571 |
| Fairhaven, MA | 02719 |
| Fall River, MA | 02724 |
| Framingham, MA | 01701, 01702 |
| Franklin, MA | 02038 |
| Grafton, MA | 01519 |
| Hopkinton, MA | 01748 |
| Hudson, MA | 01749 |
| Leominster, MA | 01453 |
| Mansfield, MA | 02048 |
| Marlborough, MA | 01752 |
| Milford, MA | 01757 |
| North Attleboro, MA | 02760 |
| North Dartmouth, MA | 02747 |
| Northborough, MA | 01532 |
| Quincy, MA | 02169 |
| Roslindale, MA | 02131 |
| Shrewsbury, MA | 01545 |
| South Dartmouth, MA | 02748 |
| Sterling, MA | 01564 |
| Sutton, MA | 01590 |
| Upton, MA | 01568 |
| Uxbridge, MA | 01569 |
| Wayland, MA | 01778 |
| Wellesley, MA | 02482 |
| West Boylston, MA | 01583 |
| Westborough, MA | 01581 |
| Worcester, MA | 01603, 01605, 01606, 01607 |
| Wrentham, MA | 02093 |