Professional Home Care Advantage Inc

Home health agency · 5875 N Lincoln Ave, Ste 232, Chicago, IL 60659

📞 (708) 858-2939

Quality of patient care star rating

31/ 100

Below average

At a glance

Ownership: Proprietary
Medicare-certified: Since 01/09/1997 · CCN 147660
Rank in Chicago: #38 of 66 home health agencies
Rank in Illinois: #396 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: 229
Medicare spending: 18% less than the national average per episode
Service area: 27 ZIP codes (see list)

Patient outcomes and care quality

Outcome measures: better than the national average on 2 of 14 reported measures, worse on 10.

Measure	This provider	State	National	vs. national
Started care in a timely manner	88.9%	96.7%	96.5%	Worse
Checked flu shot status	86.8%	66.3%	64.2%	Better
Patients improved at walking or moving around	49.2%	85.4%	88.6%	Worse
Patients improved at getting in and out of bed	39.8%	87.5%	89.7%	Worse
Patients improved at bathing	66.3%	89.4%	90.6%	Worse
Patients' breathing improved	34.7%	90%	91.3%	Worse
Patients improved at taking oral medications	66.4%	87%	88.1%	Worse
New or worsened pressure ulcers (lower is better)	0%	0.3%	0.2%	About the same
Timely action on medication issues	86.7%	94.9%	94.5%	Worse
Falls with major injury (lower is better)	0%	0.8%	0.9%	About the same
Discharge function score	34.8%	71.7%	71.7%	Worse
Health info sent to next provider	91.7%	84.7%	81.2%	Better
Discharged to community (risk-adjusted)	73.3%	—	77.7%	Worse
Potentially preventable hospitalizations (risk-adjusted) (lower is better)	13%	—	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 Same As National Rate; preventable readmissions Not Available; preventable hospitalizations Same As National Rate.

What patients say (HHCAHPS survey)

CMS has not published these measures for this provider (usually because too few patients were treated in the reporting period).

Location and service area

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ZIP codes served (27)

60104, 60153, 60160, 60409, 60411, 60426, 60438, 60458, 60471, 60534, 60610, 60612, 60616, 60617, 60619, 60621, 60624, 60628, 60636, 60638, 60643, 60644, 60647, 60649, 60653, 60659, 60804