Home health
Comfort Assisting, Inc
Home health in Walnut Creek, California
| Provider details | |
|---|---|
| Address | 112 LA CASA VIA, SUITE 160 |
| City | Walnut Creek |
| State | California |
| ZIP code | 94598 |
| Phone | 925-933-3200 |
| CMS certification number (CCN) | 059537 |
| 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. |
Comfort Assisting, Inc is in 112 LA CASA VIA, SUITE 160, Walnut Creek, CA 94598. Phone: 925-933-3200. 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: 2 out of 5. CMS claims-based measures: discharge-to-community risk-standardized rate 61.83; potentially preventable hospitalization risk-standardized rate 16.03.
Quality measures
Source: CMS
| Quality of patient care | |
|---|---|
| Quality of patient care star rating | 2 |
| Quality measures reported to CMS | |
|---|---|
| DTC Numerator | 163 |
| PPH Numerator | 30 |
| PPR Numerator | 0 |
| DTC Denominator | 296 |
| PPH Denominator | 175 |
| PPR Denominator | 71 |
| DTC Observed Rate | 55.07 |
| PPH Observed Rate | 17.14 |
| PPR Observed Rate | 0.00 |
| Discharge Function Score | 37.56 |
| DTC Risk-Standardized Rate | 61.83 |
| PPH Risk-Standardized Rate | 16.03 |
| PPR Risk-Standardized Rate | 3.77 |
| Offers Nursing Care Services | Yes |
| DTC Performance Categorization | Worse Than National Rate |
| Offers Medical Social Services | Yes |
| PPH Performance Categorization | Worse Than 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 | 100.00 |
| Numerator for Discharge Function Score | 80 |
| DTC Risk-Standardized Rate (Lower Limit) | 55.22 |
| DTC Risk-Standardized Rate (Upper Limit) | 67.88 |
| Denominator for Discharge Function Score | 213 |
| How often patients got better at bathing | 73.02 |
| PPH Risk-Standardized Rate (Lower Limit) | 11.76 |
| PPH Risk-Standardized Rate (Upper Limit) | 21.08 |
| PPR Risk-Standardized Rate (Lower Limit) | 2.77 |
| PPR Risk-Standardized Rate (Upper Limit) | 5.29 |
| Transfer of Health Information to the Patient | 98.16 |
| Transfer of Health Information to the Provider | 91.09 |
| Numerator for how often patients' breathing improved | 56 |
| Denominator for how often patients' breathing improved | 61 |
| Numerator for how often patients got better at bathing | 97 |
| Denominator for how often patients got better at bathing | 186 |
| How often patients got better at walking or moving around | 67.96 |
| How often patients got better at getting in and out of bed | 55.57 |
| Numerator for Transfer of Health Information to the Patient | 213 |
| Numerator for Transfer of Health Information to the Provider | 92 |
| Denominator for Transfer of Health Information to the Patient | 217 |
| Denominator for Transfer of Health Information to the Provider | 101 |
| Changes in skin integrity post-acute care: pressure ulcer/injury | 0.00 |
| Percent of Residents Experiencing One or More Falls with Major Injury | 0.00 |
| How often patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth | 75.75 |
| Numerator for how often patients got better at walking or moving around | 80 |
| Numerator for how often patients got better at getting in and out of bed | 67 |
| Denominator for how often patients got better at walking or moving around | 189 |
| Denominator for how often patients got better at getting in and out of bed | 173 |
| How often the home health team began their patients' care in a timely manner | 91.54 |
| Numerator for Changes in skin integrity post-acute care: pressure ulcer/injury | 0 |
| Denominator for Changes in skin integrity post-acute care: pressure ulcer/injury | 222 |
| Numerator for Percent of Residents Experiencing One or More Falls with Major Injury | 0 |
| Numerator for how often patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth | 57 |
| Denominator for Percent of Residents Experiencing One or More Falls with Major Injury | 319 |
| Denominator for how often patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth | 123 |
| Numerator for how often the home health team began their patients' care in a timely manner | 292 |
| How often physician-recommended actions to address medication issues were completely timely | 21.63 |
| Denominator for how often the home health team began their patients' care in a timely manner | 319 |
| How often the home health team determined whether patients received a flu shot for the current flu season | 93.28 |
| Numerator for how often physician-recommended actions to address medication issues were completely timely | 69 |
| Denominator for how often physician-recommended actions to address medication issues were completely timely | 319 |
| Numerator for how often the home health team determined whether patients received a flu shot for the current flu season | 222 |
| Denominator for how often the home health team determined whether patients received a flu shot for the current flu season | 238 |
| How much Medicare spends on an episode of care at this agency, compared to Medicare spending across all agencies nationally | 0.97 |
| No. of episodes to calc how much Medicare spends per episode of care at agency, compared to spending at all agencies (national) | 670 |
| Home health CAHPS survey | |
|---|---|
| Footnote Number | 11 |
| Survey response rate | 15 |
| Number of completed Surveys | 53 |
| CMS Certification Number (CCN) | 059537 |
| Footnote for Survey response rate | 11 |
| HHCAHPS Survey Summary Star Rating | 3 |
| Footnote for number of completed surveys | 11 |
| HHCAHPS Survey Summary Star Rating Footnote | 11 |
| Footnote for Star Rating for overall care from agency | 11 |
| Star Rating for health team communicated well with them | 3 |
| Footnote for Star Rating for communicated well with them | 11 |
| Footnote Star Rating discussed medicines, pain, home safety | 11 |
| Star Rating for health team gave care in a professional way | 3 |
| Star Rating for how patients rated overall care from agency | 3 |
| Star Rating team discussed medicines, pain, and home safety | 2 |
| Footnote for Star Rating for gave care in a professional way | 11 |
| Percent of patients who reported that their home health team communicated well with them | 85 |
| Percent of patients who reported that their home health team gave care in a professional way | 85 |
| Footnote for Percent of patients who reported that their home health team communicated well with them | 11 |
| Footnote for Percent of patients who reported that their home health team gave care in a professional way | 11 |
| Percent of patients who reported that their home health team discussed medicines, pain, and home safety with them | 77 |
| 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) | 82 |
| Footnote for Percent of patients who reported that their home health team discussed medicines, pain, and home safety with them | 11 |
| Footnote for Percent of patients who gave their home health agency a rating of 9 or 10 on a scale from 0(lowest) to 10(highest) | 11 |
| Footnote for Percent of patients who reported YES, they would definitely recommend the home health agency to friends and family | 11 |