Advance Care Home Health, Inc

Home health agency · 5940 W Touhy Avenue Suite 152, Niles, IL 60714

📞 (847) 588-7700

Quality of patient care star rating

38/ 100

Below average

At a glance

Ownership: Proprietary
Medicare-certified: Since 04/12/2006 · CCN 147866
Rank in Niles: #4 of 9 home health agencies
Rank in Illinois: #318 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: 416
Medicare spending: 23% less than the national average per episode
Service area: 51 ZIP codes (see list)

Patient outcomes and care quality

Outcome measures: better than the national average on 6 of 15 reported measures, worse on 7.

Measure	This provider	State	National	vs. national
Started care in a timely manner	82.1%	96.7%	96.5%	Worse
Checked flu shot status	32.6%	66.3%	64.2%	Worse
Patients improved at walking or moving around	95.5%	85.4%	88.6%	Better
Patients improved at getting in and out of bed	100%	87.5%	89.7%	Better
Patients improved at bathing	95.7%	89.4%	90.6%	Better
Patients' breathing improved	66.1%	90%	91.3%	Worse
Patients improved at taking oral medications	81.1%	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	39.6%	94.9%	94.5%	Worse
Falls with major injury (lower is better)	0%	0.8%	0.9%	About the same
Discharge function score	35.3%	71.7%	71.7%	Worse
Health info sent to next provider	0%	84.7%	81.2%	Worse
Health info given to patient	94.2%	94.6%	92.2%	Better
Discharged to community (risk-adjusted)	81.5%	—	77.7%	Better
Potentially preventable hospitalizations (risk-adjusted) (lower is better)	7.7%	—	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 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 0 of 5 reported measures, worse on 4.

Measure	This provider	State	National	vs. national
Care given in a professional way	82%	88%	89%	Worse
Team communicated well	77%	85%	86%	Worse
Discussed medicines, pain and home safety	74%	83%	82%	Worse
Rated agency 9 or 10 out of 10	44%	83%	85%	Worse
Would definitely recommend	80%	76%	79%	About the same

Based on 16 completed surveys (20% response rate).

Location and service area

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ZIP codes served (51)

60010, 60016, 60018, 60047, 60053, 60067, 60073, 60076, 60091, 60099, 60107, 60148, 60162, 60193, 60302, 60409, 60411, 60419, 60428, 60455, 60457, 60466, 60471, 60477, 60543, 60545, 60608, 60609, 60610, 60612, 60618, 60620, 60621, 60623, 60624, 60625, 60628, 60630, 60632, 60633, 60637, 60639, 60640, 60644, 60647, 60649, 60651, 60657, 60707, 60714, 61008