Descanso Home Health Services, Inc

Home health agency · 408 S Citrus Ave, Covina, CA 91723

📞 (626) 261-4835

Quality of patient care star rating

16/ 100

Poor

At a glance

Ownership: Proprietary
Medicare-certified: Since 06/07/2018 · CCN 053195
Rank in Covina: #12 of 16 home health agencies
Rank in California: #2169 of 2183 scored home health agencies
Services: Skilled nursing, Physical therapy, Occupational therapy, Speech-language pathology, Medical social services, Home health aide
Medicare episodes/yr: 1,425
Medicare spending: 6% more than the national average per episode
Service area: 202 ZIP codes (see list)

Patient outcomes and care quality

Outcome measures: better than the national average on 0 of 16 reported measures, worse on 14.

Measure	This provider	State	National	vs. national
Started care in a timely manner	80.2%	95.3%	96.5%	Worse
Checked flu shot status	20.8%	70.4%	64.2%	Worse
Patients improved at walking or moving around	48%	83.4%	88.6%	Worse
Patients improved at getting in and out of bed	43.3%	82.1%	89.7%	Worse
Patients improved at bathing	44.5%	87%	90.6%	Worse
Patients' breathing improved	44.4%	87.2%	91.3%	Worse
Patients improved at taking oral medications	61.5%	81%	88.1%	Worse
New or worsened pressure ulcers (lower is better)	2.5%	0.2%	0.2%	Worse
Timely action on medication issues	90.9%	92.4%	94.5%	Worse
Falls with major injury (lower is better)	0%	0.6%	0.9%	About the same
Discharge function score	34.2%	62.1%	71.7%	Worse
Health info sent to next provider	5.6%	81.7%	81.2%	Worse
Health info given to patient	43.9%	92.7%	92.2%	Worse
Discharged to community (risk-adjusted)	66%	—	77.7%	Worse
Potentially preventable readmissions (risk-adjusted) (lower is better)	4%	—	4.1%	About the same
Potentially preventable hospitalizations (risk-adjusted) (lower is better)	19.1%	—	10.8%	Worse

Risk-adjusted rates account for how sick patients were. Data window differs by measure; see CMS for exact dates.

CMS categorization: discharge to community Worse Than National Rate; preventable readmissions Same As National Rate; preventable hospitalizations Worse Than National Rate.

What patients say (HHCAHPS survey)

CMS has not published these measures for this provider (usually because too few patients were treated in the reporting period).

Location and service area

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ZIP codes served (202)

90001, 90002, 90012, 90018, 90019, 90022, 90023, 90026, 90032, 90033, 90036, 90043, 90046, 90059, 90061, 90063, 90066, 90067, 90069, 90201, 90212, 90221, 90241, 90255, 90265, 90278, 90280, 90405, 90505, 90602, 90604, 90605, 90621, 90630, 90631, 90638, 90640, 90703, 90806, 91001, 91006, 91007, 91010, 91016, 91020, 91024, 91030, 91040, 91042, 91101, 91103, 91104, 91105, 91106, 91107, 91108, 91205, 91208, 91214, 91301, 91311, 91320, 91325, 91335, 91340, 91345, 91350, 91356, 91361, 91367, 91402, 91405, 91406, 91411, 91604, 91605, 91701, 91702, 91706, 91708, 91709, 91710, 91711, 91722, 91723, 91724, 91730, 91731, 91732, 91733, 91737, 91739, 91740, 91741, 91744, 91745, 91746, 91748, 91750, 91752, 91755, 91761, 91762, 91763, 91764, 91765, 91766, 91767, 91768, 91773, 91776, 91780, 91784, 91786, 91788, 91789, 91790, 91791, 91792, 91801, 91803, 92203, 92210, 92220, 92223, 92234, 92236, 92260, 92262, 92264, 92270, 92301, 92307, 92308, 92316, 92324, 92335, 92336, 92337, 92344, 92345, 92346, 92354, 92373, 92374, 92376, 92377, 92392, 92394, 92395, 92399, 92404, 92405, 92407, 92408, 92410, 92411, 92503, 92504, 92505, 92506, 92508, 92509, 92530, 92536, 92543, 92544, 92545, 92553, 92555, 92557, 92562, 92563, 92570, 92582, 92584, 92585, 92587, 92590, 92595, 92596, 92630, 92637, 92646, 92683, 92708, 92780, 92801, 92804, 92805, 92831, 92832, 92841, 92860, 92865, 92870, 92878, 92879, 92880, 92881, 92882, 92886