Home health agencies › Pennsylvania › Penn Highlands Community Nurses
3
Quality of patient care star
Penn Highlands Community Nurses
Home health agency
- Location
- Saint Marys, PA 15857
- Ownership
- NON-PROFIT
- CMS ID (CCN)
- 397028
- Phone
- (814) 781-1415
3/5Quality of patient care star
98.8%started care in a timely way
84.7%improved at walking / moving
10quality measures reported
Quality of patient care star (1–5) — 1 = lowest, 5 = highest.
Care
| Measure | This home health agency | National | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timely start of care | 98.8% | — |
Outcomes
| Measure | This home health agency | National | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discharge to community (risk-standardised) | 88.5% | — | |
| Patients improved: bathing | 86.7% | — | |
| Patients improved: breathing | 89.9% | — | |
| Patients improved: getting in/out of bed | 86.0% | — | |
| Patients improved: taking oral medications | 83.0% | — | |
| Patients improved: walking/moving around | 84.7% | — | |
| Potentially preventable hospitalization (risk-std) | 8.3% | — | |
| Potentially preventable readmission (risk-std) | 3.7% | — |
Safety
| Measure | This home health agency | National | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New or worsening pressure ulcer/injury | 0.3% | — |
CMS Care Compare measures (a Medicare population). Star ratings 1–5, higher is better; for other measures the direction of "better" follows CMS. How to read these →
This profile is part of the Quaility Index — a free, public record of US healthcare quality, built by the team behind the Quaility population health platform.
Explore the Quaility Index →Source: CMS Care Compare — Home Health Compare. US-government public domain, republished with provenance. Spot an error? Tell us — corrections are published, not buried.