Our Favorite Ways to Choose a Home Health Agency.

    At Millcreek, we firmly believe that seniors and their families should know about the resources available to them to help make decisions about their care. When patients and families have good information, they make better decisions and receive better care.

   Our favorite tool for researching home care options is Medicare's Medicare's Home Health Compare. Medicare requires that all Medicare-certified agencies report patient outcomes, which are tracked and compared against state and national averages. Patient outcomes help measure how successful a home health agency was in providing care. You can look at any Medicare-certified agency, in any state, and you can select multiple home health agencies and compare them side by side, to make sure that you get the best care possible.

   Your primary care physician's office can offer suggestions for home health agencies, too. We also encourage you to call the home health agencies that you are considering to get a feel for how they interact with patients and to clarify the services and benefits they can offer to you and your family.

Remember, you and your family have the right to choose who provides your care.

    Millcreek is proud of the high quality of care we've been able to provide to our patients. We know that when you put high quality care first, patients benefit.  Here are Millcreek Home Health and Hospice's outcomes from  Home Health Compare:

Quality Measure	Millcreek Home Health	Utah Average	National Average
Managing Activities of Daily Living
How often patients got better at walking or moving around.	61%	51%	47%
How often patients got better at getting in and out of bed.	68%	60%	54%
How often patients got bet at bathing.	82%	70%	65%
Managing Pain and Treating Symptoms
How often the home health team checked for pain.	100%	97%	96%
How often the home health team treated their patients' pain.	99%	91%	94%
How often patients had less pain when moving around.	72%	61%	64%
Treating Wounds and Preventing Pressure Sores
How often patient's wounds improved or healed after an operation.	83%	77%	80%
How often the home health team checked patients for the risk of developing pressure sores.	96%	95%	95%
How often the home health team included treatments to prevent pressure sores in the plan of care.	99%	88%	88%
How often the home health team took doctor-ordered action to prevent pressure sores.	99%	85%	86%
Preventing Harm
How often the home health team began their patients' care in a timely manner.	89%	90%	86%
How often the home health team taught patients (or their family caregivers) about their drugs.	91%	76%	83%
How often patients got better at taking drugs correctly by mouth.	48%	46%	43%
How often the home health team check patients' risk of falling.	100%	95%	94%
How often the home health team checked patients for depression.	100%	95%	91%
For patients with diabetes, how often the home health team got doctors orders, gave foot care and taught patients about foot care.	97%	70%	83%
Preventing Unplanned Hospital Care
How often home health patients had to be admitted to the hospital.	16%	22%	29%

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to call us at 801.463.2478, or visit out website millcreekhomehealth.com. We are happy to listen to your concerns and offer suggestions.