Focus Home Health Care, Inc

Home health agency · 5946 North Milwaukee, Chicago, IL 60646

📞 (773) 775-7490

Quality of patient care star rating

33/ 100

Below average

At a glance

Ownership: Proprietary
Medicare-certified: Since 03/28/2007 · CCN 147947
Rank in Chicago: #36 of 66 home health agencies
Rank in Illinois: #384 of 465 scored home health agencies
Services: Skilled nursing, Physical therapy, Occupational therapy, Speech-language pathology, Medical social services, Home health aide
Medicare episodes/yr: 560
Medicare spending: 15% less than the national average per episode
Service area: 57 ZIP codes (see list)

Patient outcomes and care quality

Outcome measures: better than the national average on 4 of 15 reported measures, worse on 9.

Measure	This provider	State	National	vs. national
Started care in a timely manner	75.7%	96.7%	96.5%	Worse
Checked flu shot status	85.7%	66.3%	64.2%	Better
Patients improved at walking or moving around	59.8%	85.4%	88.6%	Worse
Patients improved at getting in and out of bed	68.6%	87.5%	89.7%	Worse
Patients improved at bathing	70.2%	89.4%	90.6%	Worse
Patients' breathing improved	76.4%	90%	91.3%	Worse
Patients improved at taking oral medications	73%	87%	88.1%	Worse
New or worsened pressure ulcers (lower is better)	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	About the same
Timely action on medication issues	95.6%	94.9%	94.5%	Better
Falls with major injury (lower is better)	3.5%	0.8%	0.9%	Worse
Discharge function score	32.7%	71.7%	71.7%	Worse
Health info sent to next provider	86.6%	84.7%	81.2%	Better
Health info given to patient	96.6%	94.6%	92.2%	Better
Discharged to community (risk-adjusted)	74.2%	—	77.7%	Worse
Potentially preventable hospitalizations (risk-adjusted) (lower is better)	11.6%	—	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 Same As National Rate; preventable readmissions Not Available; preventable hospitalizations Same As National Rate.

What patients say (HHCAHPS survey)

Survey results: better than the national average on 3 of 5 reported measures, worse on 1.

Measure	This provider	State	National	vs. national
Care given in a professional way	92%	88%	89%	Better
Team communicated well	70%	85%	86%	Worse
Discussed medicines, pain and home safety	87%	83%	82%	Better
Rated agency 9 or 10 out of 10	86%	83%	85%	About the same
Would definitely recommend	82%	76%	79%	Better

Based on 11 completed surveys (8% response rate).

Location and service area

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ZIP codes served (57)

60007, 60014, 60016, 60018, 60035, 60077, 60089, 60120, 60131, 60133, 60135, 60156, 60164, 60169, 60194, 60419, 60471, 60605, 60608, 60609, 60610, 60612, 60614, 60616, 60617, 60620, 60621, 60622, 60623, 60624, 60626, 60628, 60636, 60637, 60639, 60643, 60644, 60646, 60649, 60653, 60655, 60714, 60827, 61008, 61072, 61073, 61088, 61101, 61103, 61104, 61107, 61108, 61109, 61111, 61112, 61114, 61115