Excellent Home Health Care, Inc

Home health agency · 3901 West Oakton, Skokie, IL 60076

📞 (847) 674-3202

Quality of patient care star rating

36/ 100

Below average

At a glance

Ownership: Proprietary
Medicare-certified: Since 12/22/2003 · CCN 147751
Rank in Skokie: #13 of 21 home health agencies
Rank in Illinois: #344 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: 207
Medicare spending: Same as the national average per episode
Service area: 32 ZIP codes (see list)

Patient outcomes and care quality

Outcome measures: better than the national average on 3 of 15 reported measures, worse on 9.

Measure	This provider	State	National	vs. national
Started care in a timely manner	59.4%	96.7%	96.5%	Worse
Checked flu shot status	90%	66.3%	64.2%	Better
Patients improved at walking or moving around	86.1%	85.4%	88.6%	Worse
Patients improved at getting in and out of bed	57.2%	87.5%	89.7%	Worse
Patients improved at bathing	74.1%	89.4%	90.6%	Worse
Patients' breathing improved	72.9%	90%	91.3%	Worse
Patients improved at taking oral medications	52.3%	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	90%	94.9%	94.5%	Worse
Falls with major injury (lower is better)	0%	0.8%	0.9%	About the same
Discharge function score	37.3%	71.7%	71.7%	Worse
Health info sent to next provider	90.8%	84.7%	81.2%	Better
Discharged to community (risk-adjusted)	61.5%	—	77.7%	Worse
Potentially preventable readmissions (risk-adjusted) (lower is better)	4.4%	—	4.1%	About the same
Potentially preventable hospitalizations (risk-adjusted) (lower is better)	9.3%	—	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 Worse Than National Rate; preventable readmissions Same As National Rate; 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 (32)

60015, 60016, 60050, 60076, 60077, 60130, 60201, 60409, 60525, 60586, 60608, 60610, 60611, 60612, 60613, 60614, 60618, 60622, 60628, 60629, 60640, 60641, 60643, 60645, 60646, 60647, 60657, 60659, 60660, 60706, 60712, 60714