Table 2.
Quality of Home Health Care by Agency Characteristics at Baseline Year (2015)
| Timely imitation of care rate (n=7595) | Hospitalization rate (n=6452) | ED visit rate (n=6450) | ||||
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| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
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| Accreditation Status | ||||||
| Accredited | 91.16 | 8.76 | 15.43 | 4.01 | 11.56 | 4.02 |
| Not Accredited | 91.87 | 7.33 | 16.10 | 3.56 | 12.94 | 3.79 |
| Ownership Type | ||||||
| For Profit | 91.51 | 8.08 | 15.65 | 3.79 | 12.14 | 3.99 |
| Non-profit | 91.98 | 7.18 | 16.51 | 3.39 | 13.02 | 3.29 |
| Government | 91.73 | 7.43 | 16.38 | 4.10 | 14.67 | 4.54 |
| Location | ||||||
| Urban | 91.41 | 8.15 | 15.73 | 3.70 | 11.88 | 3.74 |
| Rural | 92.45 | 6.69 | 16.33 | 3.87 | 14.52 | 3.94 |
| Affiliation | ||||||
| Hospital-based | 92.38 | 6.64 | 16.68 | 3.65 | 13.78 | 3.68 |
| Not hospital-based | 91.53 | 8.02 | 15.75 | 3.74 | 12.27 | 3.93 |
| Agency Size | ||||||
| Single Agency | 91.49 | 8.23 | 15.72 | 3.96 | 12.22 | 4.13 |
| Multiple branch Agency | 92.15 | 6.06 | 16.41 | 2.60 | 13,35 | 2.81 |
| CMS program participation | ||||||
| Medicare Only | 91.84 | 8.22 | 15.71 | 4.03 | 11.56 | 3.91 |
| Both Medicare and Medicaid | 91.55 | 7.80 | 15.90 | 3.66 | 12.67 | 3.91 |
| Hospice care program | ||||||
| Provide | 91.54 | 7.23 | 16.38 | 3.22 | 13.51 | 3.25 |
| Not Provide | 91.62 | 7.95 | 15.81 | 3.78 | 12.34 | 3.98 |
ED visit, emergency department visit; CMS, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services