BOONE COUNTY HEALTH CENTER (ALBION, NE) Detailed Home Health Center Profile

Process of Care

Pneumonia

Percent of Patients Given Initial Antibiotic(s) within 6 Hours After Arrival

This Home Health Center:	98.0%
State:	97.3%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Home Health Center:	95.0%
State:	97.1%

Percent of Patients Given the Most Appropriate Initial Antibiotic(s)

Here:	93.0%
Nebraska:	94.1%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

This Home Health Center:	93.0%
Nebraska:	93.8%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Here:	100.0%
State:	93.9%

Surgery

Percent of Surgery Patients given an antibiotic at the right time (within one hour before surgery) to help prevent infection

Here:	79.0%
State:	97.0%

Percent of Surgery Patients whose preventive antibiotics were stopped at the right time (within 24 hours after surgery)

Here:	88.0%
Nebraska:	97.0%

Percent of Surgery Patients who were given the right kind of antibiotic to help prevent infection

Here:	100.0%
State:	98.6%

Percent of Surgery Patients who got treatment at right time (within 24 hours before or after surgery) to help prevent blood clot

Here:	100.0%
State:	97.5%

Percent of Surgery Patients whose doctors ordered treatments to prevent blood clots after certain types of surgeries

This Home Health Center:	100.0%
Nebraska:	98.5%

Percent of Surgery Patients needing hair removed from the surgical area before surgery who had hair removed using a safer method

This Home Health Center:	95.0%
Nebraska:	100.0%

Surgery patients who were taking heart drugs called beta blockers before coming to the hospital, who were kept on them

This Home Health Center:	86.0%
Nebraska:	96.1%

Patients having surgery who were actively warmed in the operating room or whose body temperature was near normal

This Home Health Center:	95.0%
Nebraska:	99.8%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	11.4%
State:	12.4%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

This Home Health Center:	13.1%
Nebraska:	12.3%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	23.0%
Nebraska:	24.4%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

This Home Health Center:	16.7%
Nebraska:	18.4%

Use of Medical Imaging

Outpatients with low back pain who had an MRI without trying recommended treatments first, such as physical therapy.

Here:	42.900%
Nebraska:	37.588%

Outpatients who had a follow-up mammogram or ultrasound within 45 days after a screening mammogram.

This Home Health Center:	6.800%
Nebraska:	9.790%

Outpatient CT scans of the abdomen that were combination (double) scans.

Here:	0.144%
Nebraska:	0.126%

Outpatient CT scans of the chest that were combination (double) scans.

This Home Health Center:	0.229%
State:	0.033%

Outpatients who got cardiac imaging stress tests before low-risk outpatient surgery

This Home Health Center:	3.100%
Nebraska:	5.403%

Home Health Quality Measures

How often the home health team began their patients' care in a timely manner

This Home Health Center:	100.0%
State:	92.3%

How often the home health team taught patients (or their family caregivers) about their drugs

Here:	89.0%
Nebraska:	90.4%

How often the home health team checked patients' risk of falling

This Home Health Center:	92.0%
State:	95.6%

How often the home health team checked patients for depression

Here:	98.0%
Nebraska:	96.1%

How often the home health team determined whether patients received a flu shot for the current flu season

This Home Health Center:	95.0%
State:	79.3%

How often the home health team determined whether their patients received a pneumococcal vaccine (pneumonia shot)

Here:	92.0%
Nebraska:	80.3%

How often the home health team checked patients for pain

Here:	100.0%
State:	97.8%

How often the home health team treated their patients' pain

Here:	100.0%
Nebraska:	98.3%

How often the home health team checked patients for the risk of developing pressure sores (bed sores)

Here:	100.0%
Nebraska:	96.9%

How often patients got better at walking or moving around

Here:	50.0%
Nebraska:	50.4%

How often patients got better at getting in and out of bed

Here:	54.0%
Nebraska:	52.4%

How often patients got better at bathing

This Home Health Center:	46.0%
Nebraska:	61.6%

How often patients had less pain when moving around

Here:	72.0%
Nebraska:	65.5%

How often patients receiving home health care needed urgent, unplanned care in the ER without being admitted

Here:	8.0%
State:	11.7%

How often home health patients had to be admitted to the hospital

This Home Health Center:	33.0%
State:	27.0%

BOONE COUNTY HEALTH CENTER - ALBION, NE