Palmeira Home Health

Home health agency · 625 2ND Street, San Francisco, CA 94107

📞 (844) 472-5634

Quality of patient care star rating · Patient survey: 1★

43/ 100

Average

At a glance

Ownership: Proprietary
Medicare-certified: Since 12/12/2009 · CCN 059098
Rank in San Francisco: #5 of 7 home health agencies
Rank in California: #1454 of 2183 scored home health agencies
Services: Skilled nursing, Physical therapy, Occupational therapy, Speech-language pathology, Medical social services · Not offered: Home health aide
Medicare episodes/yr: 850
Medicare spending: 17% less than the national average per episode
Service area: 152 ZIP codes (see list)

Patient outcomes and care quality

Outcome measures: better than the national average on 8 of 16 reported measures, worse on 4.

Measure	This provider	State	National	vs. national
Started care in a timely manner	98.6%	95.3%	96.5%	Better
Checked flu shot status	41.6%	70.4%	64.2%	Worse
Patients improved at walking or moving around	89.9%	83.4%	88.6%	Better
Patients improved at getting in and out of bed	89.9%	82.1%	89.7%	About the same
Patients improved at bathing	97.9%	87%	90.6%	Better
Patients' breathing improved	92.6%	87.2%	91.3%	Better
Patients improved at taking oral medications	97.7%	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	96.1%	92.4%	94.5%	Better
Falls with major injury (lower is better)	0.8%	0.6%	0.9%	About the same
Discharge function score	70.7%	62.1%	71.7%	Worse
Health info sent to next provider	90.7%	81.7%	81.2%	Better
Health info given to patient	99.6%	92.7%	92.2%	Better
Discharged to community (risk-adjusted)	68.6%	—	77.7%	Worse
Potentially preventable readmissions (risk-adjusted) (lower is better)	4.1%	—	4.1%	About the same
Potentially preventable hospitalizations (risk-adjusted) (lower is better)	13.1%	—	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 Same As National Rate.

What patients say (HHCAHPS survey)

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

Measure	This provider	State	National	vs. national
Care given in a professional way	74%	87%	89%	Worse
Team communicated well	66%	85%	86%	Worse
Discussed medicines, pain and home safety	72%	83%	82%	Worse
Rated agency 9 or 10 out of 10	63%	83%	85%	Worse
Would definitely recommend	53%	77%	79%	Worse

Based on 62 completed surveys (15% response rate).

Location and service area

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ZIP codes served (152)

91604, 93446, 94002, 94005, 94010, 94014, 94015, 94018, 94019, 94022, 94024, 94025, 94028, 94030, 94037, 94040, 94044, 94060, 94061, 94062, 94063, 94065, 94066, 94070, 94080, 94086, 94087, 94089, 94102, 94103, 94105, 94107, 94108, 94109, 94110, 94112, 94114, 94115, 94116, 94117, 94118, 94121, 94122, 94123, 94124, 94127, 94130, 94131, 94132, 94133, 94134, 94158, 94301, 94303, 94304, 94305, 94306, 94401, 94402, 94403, 94404, 94501, 94502, 94509, 94511, 94513, 94521, 94523, 94531, 94536, 94538, 94539, 94541, 94542, 94544, 94545, 94546, 94549, 94550, 94555, 94556, 94564, 94565, 94566, 94577, 94578, 94580, 94583, 94587, 94588, 94597, 94598, 94601, 94602, 94603, 94605, 94606, 94607, 94608, 94609, 94610, 94611, 94612, 94618, 94619, 94621, 94702, 94703, 94706, 94806, 94941, 94947, 94960, 95002, 95008, 95014, 95020, 95030, 95032, 95033, 95035, 95037, 95050, 95051, 95070, 95110, 95111, 95112, 95113, 95116, 95117, 95118, 95119, 95120, 95121, 95122, 95123, 95124, 95125, 95126, 95127, 95128, 95129, 95131, 95132, 95133, 95134, 95135, 95136, 95148, 95814, 96001