Alphacare Home Health Agency Inc

Doing business as Alphacare Home Health Agency

Home health agency in Swansea, MA, Medicare certification number 227523. CMS publishes 14 quality measures for it.

Medicare certification

Provider of Services

CCN: 227523The number CMS certifies the facility under, not a provider identifier
Status: Active
Provider type: Home health agency
Ownership: Proprietary
Control type: Proprietary
Participating since: Aug 8, 2010
Last certification: Aug 8, 2010
Overall star rating: 3 of 5Care Compare
Address: 1707 Gar Highway
Swansea, MA 02777
(617) 600-4547

NPI records for this facility (CCN to NPI Mapping) 2

Alphacare Home Health Agency
- Home Health Agency
- North Andover, MA
- NPI 1154579076
Medicare enrollment
Alphacare Home Health Agency Inc
- Home Health Agency
- Swansea, MA
- NPI 1770808636
Medicare enrollment

Quality of patient care 14

Medicare Care Compare

Care started in a timely manner 99.71
- State average 91.56 (computed here)
- National average 93.98 (computed here)
- 682 patients
Checked whether patients received a flu shot 32.53
- State average 60.95 (computed here)
- National average 62.68 (computed here)
- 495 patients
Discharge function score 96.49
- State average 69.66 (computed here)
- National average 61.19 (computed here)
- 228 patients
Health information given to the patient 82.33
- State average 89.09 (computed here)
- National average 90.76 (computed here)
- 215 patients
Health information passed to the next provider 93.94
- State average 81.53 (computed here)
- National average 78.53 (computed here)
- 462 patients
Patients got better at bathing 99.3
- State average 80.61 (computed here)
- National average 85.61 (computed here)
- 78 patients
Patients got better at getting in and out of bed 76.61
- State average 80.11 (computed here)
- National average 83.24 (computed here)
- 56 patients
Patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth 51.54
- State average 75.76 (computed here)
- National average 81.2 (computed here)
- 202 patients
Patients got better at walking or moving around 86.36
- State average 79.44 (computed here)
- National average 83.22 (computed here)
- 71 patients
Patients who fell with major injury 3.53
- State average 1.03 (computed here)
- National average 1.06 (computed here)
- 680 patients
Patients' breathing improved 74.41
- State average 80.48 (computed here)
- National average 84.54 (computed here)
- 88 patients
Physician-recommended actions on medication issues were timely 93.41
- State average 90.7 (computed here)
- National average 90.52 (computed here)
- 683 patients
Pressure ulcers or injuries that are new or worsened 0
- State average 0.32 (computed here)
- National average 0.28 (computed here)
- 241 patients
Quality of patient care star rating As expected3 of 5
- State average 2.91 (computed here)
- National average 3.25 (computed here)

Measures CMS does not publish for this facility (4)

Medicare spending per episode, against the national average — The number of patient episodes for this measure is too small to report.
Potentially preventable hospitalisations during care — The number of patient episodes for this measure is too small to report.
Potentially preventable readmissions within 30 days — This measure currently does not have data or provider has been certified/recertified for less than 6 months.
Successful return to home or community — The number of patient episodes for this measure is too small to report.

Sources for this page

Provider of Services: the certification, provider type, beds and status.
Medicare Care Compare: the star rating and every measure on this page, with the state and national rates CMS publishes beside them.
NPPES NPI Registry: the NPI records connected to this certification.

Better and worse are CMS's own comparison with the national rate, not ours: for most measures a low score is the good one (deaths, infections) and for others a high one is, so measures where CMS states no comparison are left uncoloured. The exception is star ratings, which are read against the national average here. Quality measures are published by CMS and are not adjusted or re-scored here. Averages marked “computed here” are the mean of every facility reporting that measure, worked out by NPIMap because CMS publishes no comparison for it. Confirm anything you rely on at Medicare Care Compare.