Home health
Desert Home Health Services, Inc
Home health in Palm Springs, California
| Provider details | |
|---|---|
| Address | 440 S EL CIELO RD. SUITE # 8 |
| City | Palm Springs |
| State | California |
| ZIP code | 92262 |
| Phone | 760-318-9006 |
| CMS certification number (CCN) | 058150 |
| Ownership | PROPRIETARY |
| Certification | Medicare-certified home health agency (CMS) |
| Care types | home health |
| Services offered | nursing care, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology, medical social services, home health aide |
| Palliative services basis | No palliative care program is shown in the agency's CMS Home Health Care Agencies record. That CMS file carries no palliative-care field, so this flag records CMS evidence only; it is not a claim the agency offers no palliative care. |
Desert Home Health Services, Inc is in 440 S EL CIELO RD. SUITE # 8, Palm Springs, CA 92262. Phone: 760-318-9006. Ownership: PROPRIETARY. It offers nursing care, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology, medical social services, home health aide. CMS quality-of-patient-care star rating: 3.5 out of 5. CMS claims-based measures: discharge-to-community risk-standardized rate 90.50; potentially preventable hospitalization risk-standardized rate 10.28.
Quality measures
Source: CMS
| Quality of patient care | |
|---|---|
| Quality of patient care star rating | 3.5 |
| Quality measures reported to CMS | |
|---|---|
| DTC Numerator | 894 |
| PPH Numerator | 33 |
| PPR Numerator | 12 |
| DTC Denominator | 995 |
| PPH Denominator | 523 |
| PPR Denominator | 685 |
| DTC Observed Rate | 89.85 |
| PPH Observed Rate | 6.31 |
| PPR Observed Rate | 1.75 |
| Discharge Function Score | 62.05 |
| DTC Risk-Standardized Rate | 90.50 |
| PPH Risk-Standardized Rate | 10.28 |
| PPR Risk-Standardized Rate | 3.68 |
| Offers Nursing Care Services | Yes |
| DTC Performance Categorization | Better Than National Rate |
| Offers Medical Social Services | Yes |
| PPH Performance Categorization | Same As National Rate |
| PPR Performance Categorization | Same As National Rate |
| Offers Home Health Aide Services | Yes |
| Offers Physical Therapy Services | Yes |
| Offers Speech Pathology Services | Yes |
| Offers Occupational Therapy Services | Yes |
| How often patients' breathing improved | 96.63 |
| Numerator for Discharge Function Score | 363 |
| DTC Risk-Standardized Rate (Lower Limit) | 88.61 |
| DTC Risk-Standardized Rate (Upper Limit) | 91.91 |
| Denominator for Discharge Function Score | 585 |
| How often patients got better at bathing | 91.02 |
| PPH Risk-Standardized Rate (Lower Limit) | 7.91 |
| PPH Risk-Standardized Rate (Upper Limit) | 12.99 |
| PPR Risk-Standardized Rate (Lower Limit) | 2.67 |
| PPR Risk-Standardized Rate (Upper Limit) | 4.93 |
| Transfer of Health Information to the Patient | 85.19 |
| Transfer of Health Information to the Provider | 30.21 |
| Numerator for how often patients' breathing improved | 102 |
| Denominator for how often patients' breathing improved | 118 |
| Numerator for how often patients got better at bathing | 437 |
| Denominator for how often patients got better at bathing | 554 |
| How often patients got better at walking or moving around | 81.54 |
| How often patients got better at getting in and out of bed | 93.29 |
| Numerator for Transfer of Health Information to the Patient | 489 |
| Numerator for Transfer of Health Information to the Provider | 29 |
| Denominator for Transfer of Health Information to the Patient | 574 |
| Denominator for Transfer of Health Information to the Provider | 96 |
| Changes in skin integrity post-acute care: pressure ulcer/injury | 0.66 |
| Percent of Residents Experiencing One or More Falls with Major Injury | 0.30 |
| How often patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth | 85.75 |
| Numerator for how often patients got better at walking or moving around | 394 |
| Numerator for how often patients got better at getting in and out of bed | 414 |
| Denominator for how often patients got better at walking or moving around | 564 |
| Denominator for how often patients got better at getting in and out of bed | 524 |
| How often the home health team began their patients' care in a timely manner | 90.84 |
| Numerator for Changes in skin integrity post-acute care: pressure ulcer/injury | 1 |
| Denominator for Changes in skin integrity post-acute care: pressure ulcer/injury | 587 |
| Numerator for Percent of Residents Experiencing One or More Falls with Major Injury | 2 |
| Numerator for how often patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth | 234 |
| Denominator for Percent of Residents Experiencing One or More Falls with Major Injury | 672 |
| Denominator for how often patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth | 321 |
| Numerator for how often the home health team began their patients' care in a timely manner | 595 |
| How often physician-recommended actions to address medication issues were completely timely | 73.07 |
| Denominator for how often the home health team began their patients' care in a timely manner | 655 |
| How often the home health team determined whether patients received a flu shot for the current flu season | 71.39 |
| Numerator for how often physician-recommended actions to address medication issues were completely timely | 491 |
| Denominator for how often physician-recommended actions to address medication issues were completely timely | 672 |
| Numerator for how often the home health team determined whether patients received a flu shot for the current flu season | 272 |
| Denominator for how often the home health team determined whether patients received a flu shot for the current flu season | 381 |
| How much Medicare spends on an episode of care at this agency, compared to Medicare spending across all agencies nationally | 0.93 |
| No. of episodes to calc how much Medicare spends per episode of care at agency, compared to spending at all agencies (national) | 1,325 |
| Home health CAHPS survey | |
|---|---|
| Survey response rate | 32 |
| Number of completed Surveys | 213 |
| CMS Certification Number (CCN) | 058150 |
| HHCAHPS Survey Summary Star Rating | 4 |
| Star Rating for health team communicated well with them | 4 |
| Star Rating for health team gave care in a professional way | 5 |
| Star Rating for how patients rated overall care from agency | 3 |
| Star Rating team discussed medicines, pain, and home safety | 2 |
| Percent of patients who reported that their home health team communicated well with them | 88 |
| Percent of patients who reported that their home health team gave care in a professional way | 90 |
| Percent of patients who reported that their home health team discussed medicines, pain, and home safety with them | 76 |
| Percent of patients who reported YES, they would definitely recommend the home health agency to friends and family | 80 |
| Percent of patients who gave their home health agency a rating of 9 or 10 on a scale from 0 (lowest) to 10 (highest) | 85 |