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At Home Continued …

Home Health

Home Health served 744 clients this year, and has continued Home Health was able to move its Quality of Care from 3.0 stars
to grow exponentially, with an 138% increase since 2016. to 3.5 stars. Below are some of the indicators used to calculate Home and Community
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) moni- the stars. Note that the data used to calculate stars are from
tors several quality indicators. Data from these are used to 4/2017–3/2018.
calculate an overall star rating, ranging from 1–5. In 2018,

Program Home Health Outcomes Target 2018

Outcomes Timely initiation of care. 92% 98%

Improvement in oral 67% 72%
medication management.

Assessed risk of falling. 100% 100%

Improvement in breathing. 76% 81%

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