Erwine Home Health and Hospice Inc
4 Star CMS Rating
84%
Patient Recommended
4 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 |
| 88 | Percent of patients who reported that their home health team communicated well with them |
| 4 | Star Rating for health team communicated well with them |
| 87 | Percent of patients who reported that their home health team communicated well with them |
| 4 | Star Rating team discussed medicines, pain, and home safety |
| 84 | Percent of patients who reported that their home health team discussed medicines, pain, and home safety with them |
| 4 | Star Rating for how patients rated overall care from agency |
| 86 | Percent of patients who gave their home health agency a rating of 9 or 10 on a scale from 0 (lowest) to 10 (highest) |
| 84 | Percent of patients who reported YES, they would definitely recommend the home health agency to friends and family |
| 247 | Number of completed surveys |
| 34 | Response rate |
Quality Measures
HHCAHPS Process Quality Measures
| 92.4 | How often the home health team began their patients' care in a timely manner |
| 96.2 | How often the home health team taught patients (or their family caregivers) about their drugs |
| 99.6 | How often the home health team checked patients' risk of falling |
| 99.6 | How often the home health team checked patients for depression |
| 80.6 | How often the home health team determined whether patients received a flu shot for the current flu season |
| 87.3 | How often the home health team made sure that their patients received a pneumococcal vaccine (pneumonia shot) |
| 96.7 | With diabetes, how often the home health team got doctor's orders, gave foot care, and taught patients about foot care |
| 86.5 | How often patients got better at walking or moving around |
| 81.9 | How often patients got better at getting in and out of bed |
| 88.8 | How often patients got better at bathing |
| 91.5 | How often patients' breathing improved |
| 97.7 | How often patients' wounds improved or healed after an operation |
| 81.3 | 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 |
| 10.9 | How often patients receiving home health care needed urgent, unplanned care in the ER without being admitted |
| 96.1 | 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
| 759 | Observed Number of Discharges to Community |
| 949 | Number of Eligible Stays for DTC Measure |
| 79.98 | Observed Discharge to Community Rate |
| 83.73 | Risk-Standardized Discharge to Community Rate |
| 81.34 | Lower Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Discharge to Community Rate |
| 1 | DTC Comparative Performance Category Better Than National Rate |
| 18 | Observed Number of Potentially Preventable Readmissions Following Discharge |
| 691 | Number of Eligible Stays for PPR Measure |
| 2.6 | Observed Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 3.1 | Risk-Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 2.37 | Lower Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 3.96 | Upper Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate |
| 2 | PPR Comparative Performance Category Same As National Rate |
| 0.98 | How much Medicare spends on an episode of care at this agency, compared to Medicare spending across all agencies nationally |
| 1,681 | 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
| Benton, PA | 17814 |
| Berwick, PA | 18603 |
| Blakeslee, PA | 18610 |
| Bloomsburg, PA | 17815 |
| Carbondale, PA | 18407 |
| Conyngham, PA | 18219 |
| Cresco, PA | 18326 |
| Dallas, PA | 18612 |
| Drifton, PA | 18221 |
| Drums, PA | 18222 |
| Duryea, PA | 18642 |
| Falls, PA | 18615 |
| Glen Lyon, PA | 18617 |
| Gouldsboro, PA | 18424 |
| Harveys Lake, PA | 18618 |
| Hazleton, PA | 18201, 18202 |
| Hunlock Creek, PA | 18621 |
| Huntington Mills, PA | 18622 |
| Kingston, PA | 18704 |
| Luzerne, PA | 18709 |
| Moosic, PA | 18507 |
| Moscow, PA | 18444 |
| Mountain Top, PA | 18707 |
| Nanticoke, PA | 18634 |
| Nescopeck, PA | 18635 |
| Noxen, PA | 18636 |
| Old Forge, PA | 18518 |
| Orangeville, PA | 17859 |
| Peckville, PA | 18452 |
| Pittston, PA | 18640, 18641, 18643 |
| Plymouth, PA | 18651 |
| Pocono Lake, PA | 18347 |
| Pocono Summit, PA | 18346 |
| Scranton, PA | 18504, 18505, 18510, 18512 |
| Shavertown, PA | 18708 |
| Shickshinny, PA | 18655 |
| Stillwater, PA | 17878 |
| Sugarloaf, PA | 18249 |
| Sweet Valley, PA | 18656 |
| Tunkhannock, PA | 18657 |
| Wapwallopen, PA | 18660 |
| White Haven, PA | 18661 |
| Wilkes Barre, PA | 18701, 18702, 18703, 18705, 18706, 18764 |
| Wyoming, PA | 18644 |