Patient Outcomes
The charts below give helpful information on Adventist Home Health patient outcomes including State and National averages for each quality measure. This data has been gathered from the Quality Information Evaluation System (QIES) and is publicly available online via Medicare's Home Health Compare Tool.
| KEY: AHH = Adventist Home Health |
Measures Related to Improvement in Getting Around
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| How to Read: Higher Percentages Are Better; Green Equals Better Than or Equal to State Average. |
| Quality Measure |
AHH |
MD |
U.S. |
| % of patients who get better at walking or moving around |
42% |
42% |
43% |
| % of patients who get better at getting in and out of bed |
62% |
57% |
54% |
| % of patients who have less pain when moving around |
62% |
64% |
64% |
Measures Related to Meeting Patient's Activities of Daily Living
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| How to Read: Higher Percentages Are Better; Green Equals Better Than or Equal to State Average. |
| Quality Measure |
AHH |
MD |
U.S. |
| % of patients whose bladder control improves |
58% |
54% |
50% |
| % of patients who get better at bathing |
63% |
63% |
65% |
| % of patients who get better at taking their medicines correctly (by mouth) |
42% |
42% |
43% |
| % of patients who are short of breath less often |
68% |
67% |
61% |
Measures About How Home Health Care Ends
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| How to Read: Higher Percentages Are Better; Green Equals Better Than or Equal to State Average. |
| Quality Measure |
AHH |
MD |
U.S. |
| % of patients who stay at home after an episode of home health care ends |
77% |
72% |
68% |
| % of patients whose wounds improved or healed after an operation |
66% |
74% |
79% |
Measures Related to Patient Medical Emergencies
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| How to Read: Lower Percentages Are Better; Green Equals Better Than or Equal to State Average. |
| Quality Measure |
AHH |
MD |
U.S. |
| % of patients who had to be admitted to the hospital |
20% |
25% |
28% |
| % of patients who need urgent, unplanned medical care |
19% |
23% |
21% |
| % of patients who need unplanned medical care related to a wound that is new, is worse, or has become infected |
1% |
1% |
1% |
| Data Last Updated: June 20, 2008 |