Better Life at Home LLC

CCN

227568The number CMS certifies the facility under, not a provider identifier

Status

Active

Provider type

Home health agency

Ownership

Proprietary

Control type

Proprietary

Participating since

Apr 11, 2013

Last certification

Apr 5, 2016

Overall star rating

1.5 of 5Care Compare

Address

173 Pine Street
Lowell, MA 01852
(978) 681-8000

• Better Life at Home LLC.

  • Home Health Agency
  • Lowell, MA
  • NPI 1093089039
  Medicare enrollment

• Care started in a timely manner 97.83
  • State average 91.56 (computed here)
  • National average 93.98 (computed here)
  • 92 patients
• Checked whether patients received a flu shot 27.16
  • State average 60.95 (computed here)
  • National average 62.68 (computed here)
  • 81 patients
• Discharge function score 75
  • State average 69.66 (computed here)
  • National average 61.19 (computed here)
  • 32 patients
• Health information given to the patient 77.42
  • State average 89.09 (computed here)
  • National average 90.76 (computed here)
  • 31 patients
• Health information passed to the next provider 78.69
  • State average 81.53 (computed here)
  • National average 78.53 (computed here)
  • 61 patients
• Patients got better at bathing 36.29
  • State average 80.61 (computed here)
  • National average 85.61 (computed here)
  • 37 patients
• Patients got better at getting in and out of bed 42.05
  • State average 80.11 (computed here)
  • National average 83.24 (computed here)
  • 31 patients
• Patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth 20.28
  • State average 75.76 (computed here)
  • National average 81.2 (computed here)
  • 38 patients
• Patients got better at walking or moving around 55.27
  • State average 79.44 (computed here)
  • National average 83.22 (computed here)
  • 32 patients
• Patients who fell with major injury 1.09
  • State average 1.03 (computed here)
  • National average 1.06 (computed here)
  • 92 patients
• Patients' breathing improved 49.51
  • State average 80.48 (computed here)
  • National average 84.54 (computed here)
  • 29 patients
• Physician-recommended actions on medication issues were timely 69.57
  • State average 90.7 (computed here)
  • National average 90.52 (computed here)
  • 92 patients
• Pressure ulcers or injuries that are new or worsened 0
  • State average 0.32 (computed here)
  • National average 0.28 (computed here)
  • 39 patients
• Quality of patient care star rating Worse1.5 of 5
  • State average 2.91 (computed here)
  • National average 3.25 (computed here)

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• 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.