South Springs Home Health Care

Home health agency · 1590 Oakland Road, Suite B-213, San Jose, CA 95131

📞 (408) 883-4460

Quality of patient care star rating · Patient survey: 2★

59/ 100

Average

At a glance

Ownership: Proprietary
Medicare-certified: Since 10/15/2014 · CCN 059620
Rank in San Jose: #5 of 20 home health agencies
Rank in California: #622 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: 684
Medicare spending: 5% less than the national average per episode
Service area: 91 ZIP codes (see list)

Patient outcomes and care quality

Outcome measures: better than the national average on 13 of 16 reported measures, worse on 0.

Measure	This provider	State	National	vs. national
Started care in a timely manner	99.8%	95.3%	96.5%	Better
Checked flu shot status	94.9%	70.4%	64.2%	Better
Patients improved at walking or moving around	91%	83.4%	88.6%	Better
Patients improved at getting in and out of bed	92.6%	82.1%	89.7%	Better
Patients improved at bathing	93%	87%	90.6%	Better
Patients' breathing improved	94.1%	87.2%	91.3%	Better
Patients improved at taking oral medications	90.4%	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	99.8%	92.4%	94.5%	Better
Falls with major injury (lower is better)	0.2%	0.6%	0.9%	About the same
Discharge function score	80.9%	62.1%	71.7%	Better
Health info sent to next provider	98.3%	81.7%	81.2%	Better
Health info given to patient	99%	92.7%	92.2%	Better
Discharged to community (risk-adjusted)	92%	—	77.7%	Better
Potentially preventable readmissions (risk-adjusted) (lower is better)	4.5%	—	4.1%	About the same
Potentially preventable hospitalizations (risk-adjusted) (lower is better)	6.1%	—	10.8%	Better

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 Better Than 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	82%	87%	89%	Worse
Team communicated well	79%	85%	86%	Worse
Discussed medicines, pain and home safety	72%	83%	82%	Worse
Rated agency 9 or 10 out of 10	76%	83%	85%	Worse
Would definitely recommend	70%	77%	79%	Worse

Based on 90 completed surveys (19% response rate).

Location and service area

Approximate location (ZIP code center). Open in Google Maps

ZIP codes served (91)

94002, 94010, 94022, 94024, 94025, 94027, 94040, 94041, 94061, 94063, 94086, 94087, 94089, 94127, 94301, 94303, 94306, 94502, 94526, 94536, 94538, 94539, 94541, 94544, 94545, 94552, 94560, 94566, 94577, 94587, 94601, 94603, 94606, 94609, 94611, 94618, 94621, 94704, 95002, 95003, 95005, 95006, 95007, 95008, 95014, 95018, 95019, 95020, 95030, 95032, 95033, 95035, 95037, 95046, 95050, 95051, 95054, 95060, 95062, 95065, 95066, 95070, 95073, 95076, 95110, 95111, 95112, 95116, 95117, 95118, 95119, 95120, 95121, 95122, 95123, 95124, 95125, 95126, 95127, 95128, 95129, 95130, 95131, 95132, 95133, 95134, 95135, 95136, 95138, 95139, 95148