Helping Hands Home Health Services in Blythe, CA - Home Health Agency

Helping Hands Home Health Services is a medicare certified home health care agency in Blythe, California. It is located in Blythe at 139 W Hobsonway, Blythe, California 92225. You can reach out to the office of Helping Hands Home Health Services via phone at (760) 278-9700. Helping Hands Home Health Services provides healthcare services in Nursing Care, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology, Medical Social Services, Home Health Aide. It has the following ownership type - Proprietary.

Helping Hands Home Health Services is certified by CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) and participates in medicare program. This means if you are part of medicare program, you may consider this home health facility for your medical needs. The medicare CCN number for Helping Hands Home Health Services is 559071 and it was first certified by CMS in 2019 (7 years certified).

Name	Helping Hands Home Health Services
Location	139 W Hobsonway, Blythe, California
Certified By	Medicare
Services Offered	Nursing Care Physical Therapy Occupational Therapy Speech Pathology Medical Social Services Home Health Aide
Medicare ID	559071
Ownership Type	Proprietary
Service Area Zip Codes	92201, 92225, 92226

Home healthcare agencies may have several NPI numbers. NPIs marked Confirmed are listed with Helping Hands Home Health Services in Medicare enrollment records; Possible ones were matched in NPPES by name, address or phone number, so please use them accordingly.

NPI Number	1215472246
Match	Confirmed listed in Medicare enrollment records
Organization Name	Helping Hands Home Health Services
Address	139 W Hobsonway, Blythe, CA 92225
Phone Number	714-280-2117

Helping Hands Home Health Services is "Medicare-certified" which means that this home health agency is approved by Medicare and meets certain federal health and safety requirements, however, home health agencies may vary in the quality of care and services they provide to their patients. The quality ratings give you an indication of the care Helping Hands Home Health Services gives to their patients in comparison to other home health agencies. This quality rating is based on process quality measures and patient outcome measures survey conducted by CMS.

Quality Rating:

Process Quality Measures:

The below quality measures show how often Helping Hands Home Health Services used best practices when caring for its patients (process measures). Helping Hands Home Health Services quality data is compared against the national average with the color code indicators: Better than National Average Worse than National Average

Quality Measure	Provider	National Avg.
How often the home health team began their patients’ care in a timely manner	100	96.51
How often the home health team made sure that their patients have received a flu shot for the current flu season.	Not Available	64.24
How often the agency sent a current list of the patient's medications to their next provider when the patient was discharged or transferred	Not Available	81.21
How often the agency gave patients (or their caregivers) a current list of their medications when they were discharged	Not Available	92.18

Patient Outcome Quality Measures:

The below quality measures show whether patients with Helping Hands Home Health Services improved in certain important areas of care (patient outcome). Helping Hands Home Health Services quality data is compared against the national average with the color code indicators: Better than National Average Worse than National Average

Quality Measure	Provider	National Avg.
How often patients got better at walking or moving around	43.78	88.6
How often patients got better at getting in and out of bed	54.88	89.71
How often patients got better at bathing	28.27	90.63
How often patients’ breathing improved	Not Available	91.31
How often patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth	41.37	88.07
How often physician-recommended actions to address medication issues were completely timely	85.29	94.45
How often patients' ability to move around and take care of themselves was at or above the expected level at discharge (discharge function score)	16.67	71.74
How often patients had one or more falls with a major injury during their home health care	0	0.93
How often patients developed new or worsened pressure ulcers (bed sores)	0	0.23

Hospital Use, Discharge and Medicare Spending:

These measures come from Medicare claims; CMS adjusts each rate for how sick the agency's patients were. Helping Hands Home Health Services data is compared against the national average with the color code indicators: Better than National Average Worse than National Average

Quality Measure	Provider	National Avg.
Patients who went home or to the community after home health care and, over the next 31 days, had no unplanned hospital readmission and were alive (discharge to community)	90.63	77.71
Patients who had a potentially preventable hospital stay while getting home health care	9.51	10.83

Medicare spending per episode of care: 0.87 times the national average (1.00 = national average), based on 92 episodes.

The patient experience of care survey collects patient (or their family or friend's) feedback about topics for which the patient is the best source of information. When choosing a home health agency, patients can use this information to find out what other patients thought about the care given by a certain home health agency.
Survey Results are not available for Helping Hands Home Health Services

Home Health Care

Home health care is a wide range of health care services that can be given in your home for an illness or injury. Home health care is usually less expensive, more convenient, and just as effective as care you get in a hospital or skilled nursing facility (SNF). The goal of home health care is to treat an illness or injury. Home health care helps you get better, regain your independence, and become as self-sufficient as possible.

Medicare Care Compare

Medicare's Care Compare (which replaced Home Health Compare in 2020) has information about the quality of care provided by "Medicare-certified" home health agencies throughout the nation. "Medicare-certified" means the home health agency is approved by Medicare and meets certain federal health and safety requirements.

NOTE: Medicare won't cover home health services provided by a home health agency that hasn't been Medicare-certified.