VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY, INC

  About VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY, INC

  Patient Survey Results for VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY, INC

The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems ("CAHPS") Hospice Survey was designed to measure and assess the experiences of patients who died while receiving hospice care, as well as the experiences of their informal primary caregivers. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") developed the CAHPS Hospice Survey with input from many stakeholders, including other government agencies, industry stakeholders, consumer groups, and other key individuals and organizations involved in hospice care. (More information.)

Since the CAHPS Hospice Survey focuses on experiences of care, implementation of the survey supports the following national priorities for improving care: involving patients and families in care and promoting effective communication and coordination.

The standardized 47 question CAHPS Hospice Survey instrument is composed of the following measures: Communication with Family, Getting Timely Help, Treating Patient with Respect, Emotional and Spiritual Support, Help for Pain and Symptoms, Training Family to Care for Patient, Rating of this Hospice, and Willingness to Recommend this Hospice.

Higher Scores are better. Results are available on a facility basis. Averages for each state and for the nation are also available. Allf othis information is shown below.

  Performance Data

Hospice and Palliative Care Treatment Preferences	100 %
Beliefs & Values Addressed (if desired by the patient)	100 %
Hospice and Palliative Care Pain Screening	96.2 %
Hospice and Palliative Care Pain Assessment	79.6 %
Hospice and Palliative Care Dyspnea Screening	99.5 %
Hospice and Palliative Care Dyspnea Treatment	89.3 %
Patient Treated with an Opioid Who Are Given a Bowel Regimen	94.4 %
Hospice and Palliative Care Composite Process Measure	80.5 %
Hospice Visits in the Last Days of Life	Not Available
Hospice Care Index Overall Score	Not Available
CHC/GIP provided (%days)	Not Available
Gaps in nursing visits (% elections)	Not Available
Early live discharges (% live discharges)	Not Available
Late live discharges (% live discharges)	Not Available
Burdensome transitions, Type 1 (% live discharges)	Not Available
Burdensome transitions, Type 2 (% live discharges)	Not Available
Per-beneficiary spending (U.S. dollars $)	Not Available
Nurse care minutes per routine home care days (minutes)	Not Available
Skilled nursing minutes on weekends (% minutes)	Not Available
Visits near death (% decedents)	Not Available

hese are the survey results for Home Health Care Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems. If state level results are available a comparison to state averages is shown.

  Medical Professionals Associated with VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY, INC

These are the doctors who are affiliated with VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY, INC. The data is from the most recent period. Historical data is not available.

• STACY TAYLOR ( FAMILY PRACTICE - ASYLUM HILL FAMILY MEDICINE CENTER, INC. )
• JONG GIL OH ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - HDC CARE SOLUTIONS LLC )
• MARK MARSHALL ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - NUVANCE HEALTH MEDICAL PRACTICE, PC )
• AMY TOCCO ( FAMILY PRACTICE - NUVANCE HEALTH MEDICAL PRACTICE, PC )
• DAVID KURISH ( INTERNAL MEDICINE )
• JESSE COHEN ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - QUOTIDIAN HEALTH LLC )
• LEONARD ASTRAUSKAS ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - NUVANCE HEALTH MEDICAL PRACTICE, PC )
• TERRENCE RYAN ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - PROHEALTH PHYSICIANS PC )

  Service Area

VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY, INC provides home healthcare services in these zip codes. Click on any ZIP Code to see other agencies servicing the ZIP Code.

06098 06001 06002 06013 06018 06019 06021 06022 06024 06026 06027 06031 06032 06035 06039 06057 06058 06063 06065 06068 06069 06070 06081 06085 06091 06092 06094 06107 06110 06111 06340 06351 06416 06484 06488 06612 06712 06750 06751 06753 06754 06756 06757 06759 06763 06776 06777 06778 06781 06782 06786 06787 06790 06791 06793 06794 06795 06796 06798 06810 06811