285 FARENHOLT AVENUE, OKA PLAZA, SUITE C311
Review the quality of care for GUAM NURSING SERVICES in TAMUNING, GU. Compare the quality of care and patient experiences below with state and nationwide scores to help you find the best home health providers.
Updated: 01/25/2020
The quality of patient care rating provides an indicator of how GUAM NURSING SERVICES performaned compared to other agencies. These measures were selected to give a general overview of agency performance on measures that apply to most people.
Values displayed are in percentages (%)
Pain and treating symptoms |
This agency | Guam | National |
| · Patients had less pain when moving around | 80.2 | Not Available | 81.4 |
| · Patients’ breathing improved | 83.0 | Not Available | 80.5 |
| · Patients’ wounds improved or healed after an operation | 97.9 | Not Available | 91.6 |
Preventing harm | |||
| · Began their patients’ care in a timely manner | 91.8 | Not Available | 95.3 |
| · Taught patients (or their family caregivers) about their drugs | 100.0 | Not Available | 98.5 |
| · Checked patients’ risk of falling | 100.0 | Not Available | 99.6 |
| · Checked patients for depression | n/a | Not Available | 97.5 |
| · Made sure that their patients have received a flu shot for the current flu season | 83.0 | Not Available | 78.9 |
| · Made sure that their patients have received a pneumococcal vaccine (pneumonia shot) | 82.8 | Not Available | 81.9 |
| · For patients with diabetes, how often the home health team got doctor’s orders, gave foot care, and taught patients about foot care | 99.0 | Not Available | 97.6 |
| · Patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth | 68.9 | Not Available | 70.7 |
Daily activities | |||
| · Patients got better at walking or moving around | 75.1 | Not Available | 78.2 |
| · Patients got better at getting in and out of bed | 76.3 | Not Available | 78.5 |
| · Patients got better at bathing | 83.7 | Not Available | 80.3 |
Preventing unplanned hospital care | |||
| · Patients receiving home health care needed any urgent, unplanned care in the hospital emergency room - without being admitted to the hospital | 17.3 | Not Available | 12.8 |
| · How often home health patients had to be admitted to the hospital | 21.0 | Not Available | 15.6 |
| · Patients, who have had a recent hospital stay, had to be re-admitted to the hospital | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| · Patients, who have had a recent hospital stay, received care in the hospital emergency room without being re-admitted to the hospital | n/a | n/a | n/a |
The purpose of the patient experience survey is to gather information from patients (or their family or friends) about their experiences with a home health agency. These results tell you what patients said about their recent home health care experiences at GUAM NURSING SERVICES.
Values displayed are in percentages (%)
| Survey | This agency | Guam | National |
|---|---|---|---|
| How often the home health team gave care in a professional way | 85 | 89 | 88 |
| How well did the home health team communicate with patients | 77 | 84 | 85 |
| Did the home health team discuss medicines, pain, and home safety with patients | 82 | 88 | 83 |
| How do patients rate the overall care from the home health agency | 73 | 80 | 84 |
| Would patients recommend the home health agency to friends and family | 72 | 78 | 78 |
| Based on the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) Home Health Care Survey. | |||
