South Shore Visiting Nurse Association in Rockland, MA - Home Health Agency

South Shore Visiting Nurse Association is a medicare certified home health care agency in Rockland, Massachusetts. It is located in Rockland at 30 Reservoir Park Drive, Rockland, Massachusetts 02370. You can reach out to the office of South Shore Visiting Nurse Association via phone at (781) 624-7822. South Shore Visiting Nurse Association 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.

South Shore Visiting Nurse Association 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 South Shore Visiting Nurse Association is 227082 and it was first certified by CMS in 1966 (60 years certified).

Name	South Shore Visiting Nurse Association
Location	30 Reservoir Park Drive, Rockland, Massachusetts
Certified By	Medicare
Services Offered	Nursing Care Physical Therapy Occupational Therapy Speech Pathology Medical Social Services Home Health Aide
Medicare ID	227082
Ownership Type	Non-profit
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South Shore Visiting Nurse Association 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 South Shore Visiting Nurse Association 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 South Shore Visiting Nurse Association used best practices when caring for its patients (process measures). South Shore Visiting Nurse Association 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	88.24	96.51
How often the home health team made sure that their patients have received a flu shot for the current flu season.	77.08	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	91.14	81.21
How often the agency gave patients (or their caregivers) a current list of their medications when they were discharged	95	92.18

Patient Outcome Quality Measures:

The below quality measures show whether patients with South Shore Visiting Nurse Association improved in certain important areas of care (patient outcome). South Shore Visiting Nurse Association 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	81.72	88.6
How often patients got better at getting in and out of bed	88.54	89.71
How often patients got better at bathing	84.91	90.63
How often patients’ breathing improved	85.79	91.31
How often patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth	79.28	88.07
How often physician-recommended actions to address medication issues were completely timely	86.07	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)	80.23	71.74
How often patients had one or more falls with a major injury during their home health care	1.1	0.93
How often patients developed new or worsened pressure ulcers (bed sores)	0.22	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. South Shore Visiting Nurse Association 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)	91.57	77.71
Patients who had a potentially preventable hospital stay while getting home health care	7.4	10.83
Patients readmitted to the hospital for a potentially preventable condition within 30 days after home health care ended	4.56	4.12

Medicare spending per episode of care: 0.97 times the national average (1.00 = national average), based on 7,902 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 South Shore Visiting Nurse Association are 636.

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 South Shore Visiting Nurse Association 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	89	86
Percent of patients who reported that their home health team discussed medicines, pain, and home safety with them	88	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	87	79

Survey response rate: 25%.

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.