Apex Home Health Care Services

Home health agency · 520 N Main Street Ste 200, Santa Ana, CA 92701

📞 (714) 527-0887

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

45/ 100

Average

At a glance

Ownership: Proprietary
Medicare-certified: Since 08/10/2006 · CCN 058341
Rank in Santa Ana: #2 of 7 home health agencies
Rank in California: #1343 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: 2,384
Medicare spending: 12% more than the national average per episode
Service area: 102 ZIP codes (see list)

Patient outcomes and care quality

Outcome measures: better than the national average on 11 of 16 reported measures, worse on 3.

Measure	This provider	State	National	vs. national
Started care in a timely manner	99.1%	95.3%	96.5%	Better
Checked flu shot status	70.5%	70.4%	64.2%	Better
Patients improved at walking or moving around	94.6%	83.4%	88.6%	Better
Patients improved at getting in and out of bed	94.2%	82.1%	89.7%	Better
Patients improved at bathing	95.4%	87%	90.6%	Better
Patients' breathing improved	95.3%	87.2%	91.3%	Better
Patients improved at taking oral medications	90.5%	81%	88.1%	Better
New or worsened pressure ulcers (lower is better)	1.2%	0.2%	0.2%	About the same
Timely action on medication issues	99%	92.4%	94.5%	Better
Falls with major injury (lower is better)	2.3%	0.6%	0.9%	Worse
Discharge function score	61.2%	62.1%	71.7%	Worse
Health info sent to next provider	94.4%	81.7%	81.2%	Better
Health info given to patient	94%	92.7%	92.2%	Better
Discharged to community (risk-adjusted)	85.7%	—	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)	14.2%	—	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 Better Than National Rate; preventable readmissions Same As National Rate; preventable hospitalizations Worse 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	77%	85%	86%	Worse
Discussed medicines, pain and home safety	72%	83%	82%	Worse
Rated agency 9 or 10 out of 10	75%	83%	85%	Worse
Would definitely recommend	63%	77%	79%	Worse

Based on 170 completed surveys (16% response rate).

Location and service area

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ZIP codes served (102)

90241, 90602, 90603, 90604, 90605, 90620, 90621, 90623, 90630, 90631, 90638, 90650, 90680, 90703, 90706, 90713, 90720, 90740, 90742, 90803, 90805, 90807, 90808, 90813, 90815, 92054, 92602, 92603, 92604, 92606, 92610, 92612, 92614, 92618, 92620, 92624, 92625, 92626, 92627, 92629, 92630, 92637, 92646, 92647, 92648, 92649, 92651, 92653, 92655, 92656, 92657, 92660, 92661, 92662, 92663, 92672, 92673, 92675, 92677, 92679, 92683, 92688, 92691, 92692, 92694, 92701, 92703, 92704, 92705, 92706, 92707, 92708, 92780, 92782, 92801, 92802, 92804, 92805, 92806, 92807, 92808, 92821, 92823, 92831, 92832, 92833, 92835, 92840, 92841, 92843, 92844, 92845, 92859, 92861, 92865, 92866, 92867, 92868, 92869, 92870, 92886, 92887