MERCY HEALTH VNS

  About MERCY HEALTH VNS

  What is this page all about?

Below is everything shred of information that we can find about MERCY HEALTH VNS, 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 MERCY HEALTH VNS

  DTC Performance for MERCY HEALTH VNS

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 MERCY HEALTH VNS.

  Home Health Care Services

MERCY HEALTH VNS offers 6 of 6 services tracked by CMS. A list showing the services offered and not offered is shown below.

  Ratings for MERCY HEALTH VNS

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 MERCY HEALTH VNS

MERCY HEALTH VNS provides home health care services in these zip codes.

49031 49107 49112 49120 49303 49327 49337 49403 49404 49409 49412 49415 49417 49420 49421 49425 49436 49437 49440 49441 49442 49444 49445 49446 49448 49449 49451 49452 49455 49456 49457 49460 49461

  Performance Measures for MERCY HEALTH VNS

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 MERCY HEALTH VNS

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

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Medical Professionals Associated with MERCY HEALTH VNS

These are the doctors who are affiliated with MERCY HEALTH VNS.

• WESLEY SCHERMER ( FAMILY PRACTICE - MERCY PHYSICIAN NETWORK )
• JAY KLEIN ( GERIATRIC MEDICINE - MERCY PHYSICIAN NETWORK )
• GREGORY HOLTON ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - MERCY PHYSICIAN NETWORK )
• RYAN BYLSMA ( THORACIC SURGERY - MERCY HEALTH PARTNERS SUB-SPECIALTY SERVICES )
• KRISTI LANINGA ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - MERCY PHYSICIAN NETWORK )
• AMANDA WILLHARDT ( FAMILY PRACTICE - MERCY PHYSICIAN NETWORK )
• STEPHEN ZONCA ( PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY - MUSKEGON SURGICAL ASSOCIATES PC )
• KATHERINE YOUNG ( FAMILY PRACTICE - MERCY PHYSICIAN NETWORK )
• SHELLIANN ENDLINE ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - NORTHVIEW HEALTH SPECIALISTS, PLLC )
• JUSTIN DAVIES ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - VPA PC )
• ERIC ROP ( FAMILY PRACTICE - MERCY PHYSICIAN NETWORK )
• MELISSA BUIT ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - MERCY HEALTH PARTNERS )
• KEN YE ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - MERCY PHYSICIAN NETWORK )
• DENISE BAILEY ( PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT - MERCY PHYSICIAN NETWORK )
• RICHARD DOWNEY ( THORACIC SURGERY - MERCY HEALTH PARTNERS SUB-SPECIALTY SERVICES )
• PATRICIA DEVRIES ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - MERCY PHYSICIAN NETWORK )
• JONATHAN VANDERSLIK ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - MERCY PHYSICIAN NETWORK )
• BROOKE CUDNEY ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - MERCY PHYSICIAN NETWORK )
• SCOTT ADDISON ( FAMILY PRACTICE - MERCY PHYSICIAN NETWORK )
• DANDREA HEERES ( FAMILY PRACTICE - SPECTRUM HEALTH PRIMARY CARE PARTNERS )
• JENNIFER WHEELER ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - SENIOR RESOURCES OF WEST MICHIGAN )
• COLTON WOLFE-SABO ( FAMILY PRACTICE - SPECTRUM HEALTH PRIMARY CARE PARTNERS )
• MATTHEW ELLER ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - MERCY PHYSICIAN NETWORK )
• ADELITA SAENZ ( FAMILY PRACTICE - SPECTRUM HEALTH PRIMARY CARE PARTNERS )
• JACOB TAYLOR ( FAMILY PRACTICE - MERCY HEALTH PARTNERS )
• EDWARD HATT ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - MERCY PHYSICIAN NETWORK )
• CHAD UPTIGROVE ( FAMILY PRACTICE - MERCY PHYSICIAN NETWORK )
• THOMAS WATKINS ( FAMILY PRACTICE )
• AMANDA RODRIGUEZ ( FAMILY PRACTICE - MERCY PHYSICIAN NETWORK )
• MARILENA ORAVITAN ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - MERCY PHYSICIAN NETWORK )
• ALINA MCDERMED ( FAMILY PRACTICE - SPECTRUM HEALTH PRIMARY CARE PARTNERS )
• REBECCA NIELSEN ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - VPA PC )
• LINDSAY OLIVEIRA ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - MERCY PHYSICIAN NETWORK )
• ALEXANDER WAGNER ( FAMILY PRACTICE - MERCY PHYSICIAN NETWORK )