Meritus Medical Center, Inc in Hagerstown, MD - Home Health Agency

Meritus Medical Center, Inc is a medicare certified home health care agency in Hagerstown, Maryland. It is located in Hagerstown at 1799 Howell Road, Hagerstown, Maryland 21740. You can reach out to the office of Meritus Medical Center, Inc via phone at (301) 766-7800. Meritus Medical Center, Inc provides healthcare services in Nursing Care, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology, Medical Social Services, Home Health Aide. It has the following ownership type - Non-profit.

Meritus Medical Center, Inc 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 Meritus Medical Center, Inc is 217085 and it was first certified by CMS in 1984 (42 years certified).

Name	Meritus Medical Center, Inc
Location	1799 Howell Road, Hagerstown, Maryland
Certified By	Medicare
Services Offered	Nursing Care Physical Therapy Occupational Therapy Speech Pathology Medical Social Services Home Health Aide
Medicare ID	217085
Ownership Type	Non-profit
Service Area Zip Codes	21711, 21713, 21719, 21721, 21722, 21733, 21734, 21740, 21741, 21742, 21750, 21756, 21758, 21767, 21773, 21779, 21780, 21782, 21783, 21795

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

NPI Number	1942290077
Match	Confirmed listed in Medicare enrollment records
Organization Name	Meritus Medical Center, Inc.
Doing Business As	Meritus Home Health
Address	1799 Howell Rd, Hagerstown, MD 21740
Phone Number	301-766-7800

Meritus Medical Center, Inc 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 Meritus Medical Center, Inc 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 Meritus Medical Center, Inc used best practices when caring for its patients (process measures). Meritus Medical Center, Inc 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	98.79	96.51
How often the home health team made sure that their patients have received a flu shot for the current flu season.	63.23	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	98.75	81.21
How often the agency gave patients (or their caregivers) a current list of their medications when they were discharged	98.6	92.18

Patient Outcome Quality Measures:

The below quality measures show whether patients with Meritus Medical Center, Inc improved in certain important areas of care (patient outcome). Meritus Medical Center, Inc 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	86.7	88.6
How often patients got better at getting in and out of bed	91.77	89.71
How often patients got better at bathing	90.51	90.63
How often patients’ breathing improved	96	91.31
How often patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth	88	88.07
How often physician-recommended actions to address medication issues were completely timely	98.49	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)	83.18	71.74
How often patients had one or more falls with a major injury during their home health care	0.38	0.93
How often patients developed new or worsened pressure ulcers (bed sores)	0.29	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. Meritus Medical Center, Inc 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)	89.01	77.71
Patients who had a potentially preventable hospital stay while getting home health care	7.67	10.83
Patients readmitted to the hospital for a potentially preventable condition within 30 days after home health care ended	4.63	4.12

Medicare spending per episode of care: 0.96 times the national average (1.00 = national average), based on 1,419 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. The total number of patients who responded in this survey for Meritus Medical Center, Inc are 87. Since fewer than 100 patients completed the survey, use the scores shown, if any, with caution as the number of surveys may be too low to accurately tell how Meritus Medical Center, Inc is doing.

Question Type:	Rating by Patients
Patient survey summary star rating
Health team gave care in a professional way
Health team communicated well with them
Health team discussed medicines, pain, and home safety
How patients rated overall care from agency

The patient survey data of Meritus Medical Center, Inc is compared against the national average with the color code indicators: Better than National Average Worse than National Average

Experience Measure	Provider	National Avg.
Percent of patients who reported that their home health team gave care in a professional way	91	89
Percent of patients who reported that their home health team communicated well with them	87	86
Percent of patients who reported that their home health team discussed medicines, pain, and home safety with them	78	82
Percent of patients who gave their home health agency a rating of 9 or 10 on a scale from 0 (lowest) to 10 (highest)	91	85
Percent of patients who reported YES, they would definitely recommend the home health agency to friends and family	77	79

Survey response rate: 8%.

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.