Table 1:

Comparison of strata and agency characteristics for U.S. home health agencies and survey respondents, 2018

	Universe of U.S. Agencies (n = 11,549)	Survey Respondents (n = 536)
	Unweighted	Weighted	--	Unweighted
	%	%	p-value†	%
Strata Characteristics
Rural	14.8	14.8	*	39.7
Urban	85.2	85.2	*	60.3
Census region
Northeast (including Puerto Rico)	9.4	9.4	*	11.6
Midwest	26.8	26.8	*	28.7
South	43.9	43.9	*	40.9
West	19.9	19.9	*	18.7
Ownership
For-profit	81.4	81.4	*	64.4
Nonprofit	14.8	14.8	*	27.3
Government	3.8	3.8	*	8.4
Agency Characteristics
Agency Oversight
Hospital	6.8	8.6	0.08	17.0
Visiting Nurse Association	4.9	7.0	0.08	8.0
Medicare Only	21.6	18.0	0.06	14.7
Operates Medicare Hospice	5.6	5.3	0.72	8.8
Part of a System of Branches	13.7	15.1	0.40	17.4
Services Provided In-House
Nursing Services	92.2	91.3	0.54	92.4
Home Health Aide Services	85.7	86.7	0.58	88.4
	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	p-value*	Mean (SD)
Nurse Staffing
% RN	58.7 (23.9)	57.6 (25.6)	0.40	59.4 (24.1)
% LPN/LVN	20.4 (19.8)	19.7 (19.6)	0.50	17.1 (18.4)
% Home Health Aides	20.9 (20.6)	22.7 (23.3)	0.14	23.5 (21.9)
QoPC Star Rating†	3.27 (0.93)	3.34 (0.92)	0.20	3.27 (0.88)
HHCAHPS Summary Star Rating‡	3.70 (0.97)	3.74 (0.93)	0.54	3.93 (0.87)

LPN/LVN = Licensed Practical Nurse/Licensed Vocational Nurse; RN = Registered Nurse; QoPC = Quality of Patient Care; HHCAHPS = Home Health Care Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems. Strata characteristics are measures used to define sampling strata.

^*p=1.00; weighted estimates for variables used for probability weights are equal to universe of U.S. agencies.

^†p-values, generated using regression, are a test of equivalence of the U.S. agencies and weighted survey respondents and are significant at α<0.05.

^‡20.4% and 46.4% of agencies had missing values for QoPC Star Rating and HHCAHPS Summary Star Rating, respectively.