10 WATER STREET SUITE 307
Review the quality of care for HEALTHREACH HOMECARE & HOSPICE in WATERVILLE, ME. 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 HEALTHREACH HOMECARE & HOSPICE 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 | Maine | National |
· Patients had less pain when moving around | 69.1 | 80.7 | 81.4 |
· Patients’ breathing improved | 67.0 | 77.7 | 80.5 |
· Patients’ wounds improved or healed after an operation | 84.6 | 90.5 | 91.6 |
Preventing harm | |||
· Began their patients’ care in a timely manner | 68.1 | 91.7 | 95.3 |
· Taught patients (or their family caregivers) about their drugs | 98.4 | 99.5 | 98.5 |
· Checked patients’ risk of falling | 99.9 | 99.8 | 99.6 |
· Checked patients for depression | n/a | 97.5 | 97.5 |
· Made sure that their patients have received a flu shot for the current flu season | 72.0 | 78.4 | 78.9 |
· Made sure that their patients have received a pneumococcal vaccine (pneumonia shot) | 81.0 | 85.6 | 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 | 93.2 | 97.6 | 97.6 |
· Patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth | 62.3 | 66.7 | 70.7 |
Daily activities | |||
· Patients got better at walking or moving around | 72.2 | 76.7 | 78.2 |
· Patients got better at getting in and out of bed | 77.5 | 79.1 | 78.5 |
· Patients got better at bathing | 72.9 | 77.1 | 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 | 14.8 | 16.2 | 12.8 |
· How often home health patients had to be admitted to the hospital | 15.1 | 15.5 | 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 HEALTHREACH HOMECARE & HOSPICE.
Values displayed are in percentages (%)
Survey | This agency | Maine | National |
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How often the home health team gave care in a professional way | 88 | 92 | 88 |
How well did the home health team communicate with patients | 85 | 89 | 85 |
Did the home health team discuss medicines, pain, and home safety with patients | 82 | 86 | 83 |
How do patients rate the overall care from the home health agency | 84 | 86 | 84 |
Would patients recommend the home health agency to friends and family | 82 | 88 | 78 |
Based on the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) Home Health Care Survey. |