Americade Home Health Agency

Home health agency · 420 N Montebello Blvd Suite 203, Montebello, CA 90640

📞 (323) 278-1283

Quality of patient care star rating

66/ 100

Above average

At a glance

Ownership: Proprietary
Medicare-certified: Since 04/25/1986 · CCN 057742
Rank in Montebello: #1 of 6 home health agencies
Rank in California: #364 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: 566
Medicare spending: 3% more than the national average per episode
Service area: 61 ZIP codes (see list)

Patient outcomes and care quality

Outcome measures: better than the national average on 7 of 16 reported measures, worse on 4.

Measure	This provider	State	National	vs. national
Started care in a timely manner	94.7%	95.3%	96.5%	Worse
Checked flu shot status	68.4%	70.4%	64.2%	Better
Patients improved at walking or moving around	95.3%	83.4%	88.6%	Better
Patients improved at getting in and out of bed	87.1%	82.1%	89.7%	Worse
Patients improved at bathing	93.3%	87%	90.6%	Better
Patients' breathing improved	91.4%	87.2%	91.3%	About the same
Patients improved at taking oral medications	92%	81%	88.1%	Better
New or worsened pressure ulcers (lower is better)	0%	0.2%	0.2%	About the same
Timely action on medication issues	10.1%	92.4%	94.5%	Worse
Falls with major injury (lower is better)	0.4%	0.6%	0.9%	About the same
Discharge function score	68.8%	62.1%	71.7%	Worse
Health info sent to next provider	100%	81.7%	81.2%	Better
Health info given to patient	98.5%	92.7%	92.2%	Better
Discharged to community (risk-adjusted)	88.8%	—	77.7%	Better
Potentially preventable readmissions (risk-adjusted) (lower is better)	3.9%	—	4.1%	About the same
Potentially preventable hospitalizations (risk-adjusted) (lower is better)	10.5%	—	10.8%	About the same

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

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

What patients say (HHCAHPS survey)

Survey results: better than the national average on 5 of 5 reported measures, worse on 0.

Measure	This provider	State	National	vs. national
Care given in a professional way	97%	87%	89%	Better
Team communicated well	88%	85%	86%	Better
Discussed medicines, pain and home safety	96%	83%	82%	Better
Rated agency 9 or 10 out of 10	94%	83%	85%	Better
Would definitely recommend	93%	77%	79%	Better

Based on 2 completed surveys (2% response rate).

Location and service area

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ZIP codes served (61)

90001, 90002, 90003, 90056, 90062, 90063, 90220, 90221, 90247, 90262, 90280, 90603, 90604, 90640, 90670, 90680, 90701, 90713, 90720, 90805, 91731, 91733, 91755, 91770, 91776, 91803, 92021, 92057, 92069, 92071, 92084, 92105, 92111, 92115, 92122, 92123, 92126, 92128, 92129, 92139, 92503, 92646, 92647, 92655, 92683, 92701, 92703, 92704, 92706, 92708, 92801, 92802, 92804, 92805, 92831, 92840, 92841, 92843, 92844, 92845, 92870