Vchs 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 |
| 5 | Star Rating for health team gave care in a professional way |
| 92 | Percent of patients who reported that their home health team communicated well with them |
| 5 | Star Rating for health team communicated well with them |
| 89 | 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 |
| 85 | 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 |
| 131 | Number of completed surveys |
| 45 | Response rate |
Quality Measures
HHCAHPS Process Quality Measures
| 99.7 | How often the home health team began their patients' care in a timely manner |
| 99.7 | How often the home health team taught patients (or their family caregivers) about their drugs |
| 99 | How often the home health team checked patients' risk of falling |
| 100 | How often the home health team checked patients for depression |
| 79.5 | How often the home health team determined whether patients received a flu shot for the current flu season |
| 83.1 | How often the home health team made sure that their patients received a pneumococcal vaccine (pneumonia shot) |
| 100 | With diabetes, how often the home health team got doctor's orders, gave foot care, and taught patients about foot care |
| 66.6 | How often patients got better at walking or moving around |
| 64.5 | How often patients got better at getting in and out of bed |
| 71.8 | How often patients got better at bathing |
| 71.8 | How often patients' breathing improved |
| 89.4 | How often patients' wounds improved or healed after an operation |
| 57.6 | How often patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth |
| 12.5 | 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 |
| 98.7 | How often physician-recommended actions to address medication issues were completely timely |
| 0.33 | Changes in skin integrity post-acute care: pressure ulcer/injury |
Patient Outcome Statistics
Rates of Discharge to Community and Potentially Preventable Readmissions
| 297 | Observed Number of Discharges to Community |
| 414 | Number of Eligible Stays for DTC Measure |
| 71.74 | Observed Discharge to Community Rate |
| 74.03 | Risk-Standardized Discharge to Community Rate |
| 70.56 | Lower Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Discharge to Community Rate |
| 3 | DTC Comparative Performance Category Worse Than National Rate |
| 6 | Observed Number of Potentially Preventable Readmissions Following Discharge |
| 268 | Number of Eligible Stays for PPR Measure |
| 2.24 | Observed Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 3.22 | Risk-Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 2.35 | Lower Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 4.37 | Upper Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 2 | PPR Comparative Performance Category Same As National Rate |
| 0.95 | How much Medicare spends on an episode of care at this agency, compared to Medicare spending across all agencies nationally |
| 803 | 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
| Anselmo, NE | 68813 |
| Ansley, NE | 68814 |
| Arcadia, NE | 68815 |
| Ashton, NE | 68817 |
| Bartlett, NE | 68622 |
| Boelus, NE | 68820 |
| Broken Bow, NE | 68822 |
| Burwell, NE | 68823 |
| Cairo, NE | 68824 |
| Comstock, NE | 68828 |
| Dannebrog, NE | 68831 |
| Elba, NE | 68835 |
| Farwell, NE | 68838 |
| Greeley, NE | 68842 |
| Loup City, NE | 68853 |
| Mason City, NE | 68855 |
| Merna, NE | 68856 |
| North Loup, NE | 68859 |
| Ord, NE | 68862 |
| Palmer, NE | 68864 |
| Rockville, NE | 68871 |
| Saint Libory, NE | 68872 |
| Saint Paul, NE | 68873 |
| Sargent, NE | 68874 |
| Scotia, NE | 68875 |
| Spalding, NE | 68665 |
| Taylor, NE | 68879 |
| Westerville, NE | 68881 |
| Wolbach, NE | 68882 |