North Shore Healthcare, Inc

Home health agency · 1420 Renaissance Drive, Park Ridge, IL 60068

📞 (847) 213-0483

Quality of patient care star rating

22/ 100

Below average

At a glance

Ownership: Proprietary
Medicare-certified: Since 08/02/2012 · CCN 148326
Rank in Park Ridge: #9 of 13 home health agencies
Rank in Illinois: #445 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: 539
Medicare spending: 22% less than the national average per episode
Service area: 75 ZIP codes (see list)

Patient outcomes and care quality

Outcome measures: better than the national average on 1 of 15 reported measures, worse on 12.

Measure	This provider	State	National	vs. national
Started care in a timely manner	38%	96.7%	96.5%	Worse
Checked flu shot status	22.1%	66.3%	64.2%	Worse
Patients improved at walking or moving around	36.9%	85.4%	88.6%	Worse
Patients improved at getting in and out of bed	55.1%	87.5%	89.7%	Worse
Patients improved at bathing	43.3%	89.4%	90.6%	Worse
Patients' breathing improved	40.9%	90%	91.3%	Worse
Patients improved at taking oral medications	48%	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	40.5%	94.9%	94.5%	Worse
Falls with major injury (lower is better)	0%	0.8%	0.9%	About the same
Discharge function score	24.2%	71.7%	71.7%	Worse
Health info sent to next provider	19.1%	84.7%	81.2%	Worse
Health info given to patient	77.2%	94.6%	92.2%	Worse
Discharged to community (risk-adjusted)	74.5%	—	77.7%	Worse
Potentially preventable hospitalizations (risk-adjusted) (lower is better)	7.8%	—	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)

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 (75)

60007, 60008, 60010, 60014, 60016, 60050, 60053, 60056, 60068, 60073, 60076, 60077, 60089, 60104, 60110, 60118, 60131, 60137, 60160, 60164, 60171, 60177, 60201, 60402, 60409, 60411, 60419, 60426, 60430, 60440, 60466, 60471, 60473, 60475, 60478, 60504, 60543, 60546, 60607, 60608, 60609, 60610, 60612, 60613, 60615, 60617, 60618, 60619, 60620, 60621, 60622, 60623, 60624, 60625, 60626, 60628, 60630, 60632, 60636, 60637, 60638, 60639, 60640, 60641, 60643, 60645, 60647, 60649, 60653, 60655, 60659, 60707, 60712, 60714, 60827