AVERA @ HOME

  About AVERA @ HOME

  What is this page all about?

Below is everything shred of information that we can find about AVERA @ 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 AVERA @ HOME

  DTC Performance for AVERA @ 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 Same As National Rate for AVERA @ HOME.

  Home Health Care Services

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

  Ratings for AVERA @ 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 AVERA @ HOME

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

55902 57014 57029 57031 57036 57037 57040 57043 57045 57046 57052 57059 57062 57063 57066 57067 57069 57070 57072 57073 57078 57105 57108 57315 57317 57329 57330 57335 57354 57356 57361 57367 57369 57380 57523 57528 57529 57533 57538 57580 68198 68701 68718 68724 68727 68730 68736 68739 68745 68749 68757 68760 68765 68767 68769 68771 68774 68786 68792

  Performance Measures for AVERA @ 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 AVERA @ HOME

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

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Medical Professionals Associated with AVERA @ HOME

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

• MELVIN WALLINGA ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL, INC. )
• DANIEL MEGARD ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - YANKTON MEDICAL CLINIC PC )
• AMANDA SEDLACEK ( HOSPICE/PALLIATIVE CARE - YANKTON MEDICAL CLINIC PC )
• CARRISSA PIETZ ( FAMILY PRACTICE - YANKTON MEDICAL CLINIC PC )
• KARL DEMARCO ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL, INC. )
• MCKENZIE HANSON ( FAMILY PRACTICE - YANKTON MEDICAL CLINIC PC )
• SUSAN FANTA ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - YANKTON MEDICAL CLINIC PC )
• MARTHA HOLSTEIN ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - YANKTON MEDICAL CLINIC PC )
• ABIGAIL REYNOLDS ( FAMILY PRACTICE - YANKTON MEDICAL CLINIC PC )
• MEGAN SMITH ( FAMILY PRACTICE - COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC )
• RICHARD KAFKA ( FAMILY PRACTICE - AVERA MCKENNAN )
• MIKAELA KOENIG ( FAMILY PRACTICE - WAGNER COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL )
• SARAH ARENS ( PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT - YANKTON MEDICAL CLINIC PC )
• TYLER HANSON ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - YANKTON MEDICAL CLINIC PC )
• JEFFREY JOHNSON ( FAMILY PRACTICE - SACRED HEART HEALTH SERVICES )
• JENNIFER FILLAUS ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - YANKTON MEDICAL CLINIC PC )
• SHAKIL HAFIZ ( FAMILY PRACTICE - FREEMAN REGIONAL HEALTH SERVICES )
• SCOTT WEBER ( FAMILY PRACTICE - YANKTON MEDICAL CLINIC PC )