BETTER @ HOME

  About BETTER @ HOME

  What is this page all about?

Below is everything shred of information that we can find about BETTER @ HOME, along with our best effort to make sense of the data. Our purpose here is to help you to make good decisions when picking a home health care agency and to keep you informed once you have chosen one. We know from personal experience that choosing a home health care agency is not something you do once and then you forget about it. When you choose a home health care agency, it is important to be aware of any changes, good or bad, so that you can stay as comfortable as possible. Changes in the agency, the people who work there, or the patients can all affect your care.

  General Information on BETTER @ HOME

  DTC Performance for BETTER @ HOME

The DTC-PAC measures assess successful discharge to the community from a PAC setting, with successful discharge to the community including no unplanned rehospitalizations and no death in the 31 days following discharge. Specifically, these measures report a provider’s riskstandardized rate of Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) patients/residents who are discharged to the community following a PAC stay, and do not have an unplanned readmission to an acute care hospital or LTCH in the 31 days following discharge to community, and who remain alive during the 31 days following discharge to community. Community, for this measure, is defined as home or self care, with or without home health services, based on Patient Discharge Status Codes 01, 06, 81, and 86 on the Medicare FFS claim. A statistical approach is used to calculate confidence intervals for the provider’s DTC rate. These confidence intervals are then compared to the national observed DTC rate to assign providers to performance categories for public reporting. The performance categories are (i) better than the national rate, (ii) no different from the national rate, and (iii) worse than the national rate.

DTC performance is Better Than National Rate for BETTER @ HOME.

  Home Health Care Services

BETTER @ HOME offers 6 of 6 services tracked by CMS. A list showing the services offered and not offered is shown below.

  Ratings for BETTER @ HOME

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed a detailed methodology for rating home health care agencies. The scores shown below are based on the The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) Home Health Care Survey.

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  Service Area Covered by BETTER @ HOME

BETTER @ HOME provides home health care services in these zip codes.

32113 32134 32159 32162 32163 32179 32182 32183 32195 32617 32664 32667 32668 32681 32686 32696 34420 34431 34432 34433 34434 34449 34470 34471 34472 34473 34474 34475 34476 34478 34479 34480 34481 34482 34484 34488 34491 34714 34785

  Performance Measures for BETTER @ HOME

All of the measures included in HHC are proportions that show what percentage of patients or episodes experienced the process or outcome being measured. For all measures, except acute care hospitalization, a higher measure value means a better score.

Process of care measures tell you how often an agency gave the recommended care (like checking patients for depression when they start getting care). A score of 88% for a process of care measure is interpreted as 88% of the patients received the recommended care during their episode of care.

  Patient Survey Responses for BETTER @ HOME

Below is information compiled by CMS on the percentage of patients who respond to specific treatments and a comparison of the results for BETTER @ HOME to the national results for similar facilities.

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Medical Professionals Associated with BETTER @ HOME

These are the doctors who are affiliated with BETTER @ HOME.

• SHEREEN AYSHEH ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - LIFEFORCE HEALTHCARE, LLC )
• GREGORY BAILEY ( OBSTETRICS/GYNECOLOGY - WELL BALANCED HEALTHCARE, LLC )
• MARY BODENHEIMER ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - LEGACY HEALTHCARE SERVICES INC )
• JAIME RUBIO GONZALEZ ( GENERAL PRACTICE )
• CRAIG MELBOURNE ( ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY - FLORIDA HOSPITAL PHYSICIAN GROUP INC )
• LARRY POPEIL ( FAMILY PRACTICE )
• GABRIEL UMANA ( FAMILY PRACTICE - OCALA HEALTH PRIMARY CARE LLC )
• JOHN LITTELL ( FAMILY PRACTICE - JOHN THOMAS LITTELL,M.D.,P.A. )
• BINDESHWARI SINHA ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - CORA HEALTH SERVICES, INC. )
• JOSE GAUDIER ( NEUROLOGY - JOSE A GAUDIER MD PA )
• ALCEHA MAYNE THOMAS ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - LIFEFORCE HEALTHCARE, LLC )
• NANCY ANDREJACK ( PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT - THE ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE, PA )
• SRINIVAS DANTULURI ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - MILLENNIUM PHYSICIAN GROUP LLC )
• STEVEN CAPPS ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - PRIMARY CARE PROVIDERS INC )