Life Touch Home Health Services
3 Star CMS Rating
70%
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 |
| 2 | Star Rating for health team gave care in a professional way |
| 84 | Percent of patients who reported that their home health team communicated well with them |
| 2 | Star Rating for health team communicated well with them |
| 80 | Percent of patients who reported that their home health team communicated well with them |
| 4 | Star Rating team discussed medicines, pain, and home safety |
| 86 | 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 |
| 82 | Percent of patients who gave their home health agency a rating of 9 or 10 on a scale from 0 (lowest) to 10 (highest) |
| 70 | Percent of patients who reported YES, they would definitely recommend the home health agency to friends and family |
| 83 | Number of completed surveys |
| 24 | Response rate |
Quality Measures
HHCAHPS Process Quality Measures
| 99.1 | How often the home health team began their patients' care in a timely manner |
| 100 | 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 |
| 99.7 | How often the home health team checked patients for depression |
| 78.2 | How often the home health team determined whether patients received a flu shot for the current flu season |
| 85.7 | How often the home health team made sure that their patients received a pneumococcal vaccine (pneumonia shot) |
| 99 | With diabetes, how often the home health team got doctor's orders, gave foot care, and taught patients about foot care |
| 51.4 | How often patients got better at walking or moving around |
| 41.9 | How often patients got better at getting in and out of bed |
| 46.8 | How often patients got better at bathing |
| 20.7 | 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. |
| 25.3 | How often patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth |
| 14.1 | How often home health patients had to be admitted to the hospital |
| 13.6 | How often patients receiving home health care needed urgent, unplanned care in the ER without being admitted |
| 98.1 | How often physician-recommended actions to address medication issues were completely timely |
| 0.85 | Changes in skin integrity post-acute care: pressure ulcer/injury |
Patient Outcome Statistics
Rates of Discharge to Community and Potentially Preventable Readmissions
| 58 | Observed Number of Discharges to Community |
| 138 | Number of Eligible Stays for DTC Measure |
| 42.03 | Observed Discharge to Community Rate |
| 47.71 | Risk-Standardized Discharge to Community Rate |
| 39.39 | Lower Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Discharge to Community Rate |
| 3 | DTC Comparative Performance Category Worse Than National Rate |
| n/a | Observed Number of Potentially Preventable Readmissions Following Discharge The number of patient episodes for this measure is too small to report. |
| 14 | Number of Eligible Stays for PPR Measure The number of patient episodes for this measure is too small to report. |
| n/a | Observed Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate The number of patient episodes for this measure is too small to report. |
| n/a | Risk-Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate The number of patient episodes for this measure is too small to report. |
| n/a | Lower Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate The number of patient episodes for this measure is too small to report. |
| n/a | Upper Limit of the 95% Confidence Interval on the Risk- Standardized Potentially Preventable Readmissions Rate The number of patient episodes for this measure is too small to report. |
| 4 | PPR Comparative Performance Category Not Available |
| 0.96 | How much Medicare spends on an episode of care at this agency, compared to Medicare spending across all agencies nationally |
| 1,053 | 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
| Alamo, TX | 78516 |
| Brownsville, TX | 78521 |
| Donna, TX | 78537 |
| Edcouch, TX | 78538 |
| Edinburg, TX | 78539, 78540, 78541, 78542 |
| Elsa, TX | 78543 |
| Harlingen, TX | 78550 |
| Hidalgo, TX | 78557 |
| La Joya, TX | 78560 |
| La Villa, TX | 78562 |
| Lyford, TX | 78569 |
| McAllen, TX | 78501, 78503, 78504, 78505 |
| Mission, TX | 78572, 78573, 78574 |
| Penitas, TX | 78576 |
| Pharr, TX | 78577 |
| Rio Grande City, TX | 78582 |
| Roma, TX | 78584 |
| San Juan, TX | 78589 |
| Sullivan City, TX | 78595 |
| Weslaco, TX | 78596, 78599 |