Institutional Measures

Home Care

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center tracks specific measures related to home health care.

Strategic Improvement Measures for Home Health Care
  • Percent of Synagis doses given within 25-35 days after prior dose
  • Percent of Synagis doses given within 25-35 days after prior dose taking into account circumstances out of Home Care control
  • Rapid Cycle Collaborative - Percent of referrals accepted withing 24 hours
  • Rapid Cycle Collaborative - Percent of referrals lost due to inability to meet request within 24 hours
  • Rapid Cycle Collaborative - Percent of referrals that were delayed past 24 hours, but still accepted
  • Days in AR (Flow)
  • HHA arrival time accuracy  Percent of times the nurses / therapist arrived within 15 minutes of scheduled visits during the past quarter
  • Medication Safety: Home infusion patients: Number of medication errors per 1000 patients days
  • Nosohusial infection rate for central lines: Blood stream infections per 1000 catheter days
  • Nosohusial infection rate for central lines: Catheter site or tunnel infections per 1000 catheter days
  • Patient / Family satisfaction with Cincinnati Children's Home Care Services - Home Health Visits
  • Patient / Family satisfaction with Cincinnati Children's Home Care Services - Nebuziler Visits
  • Percent of claims denied for all reasons out of number of claims adjudicated
  • Percent of claims denied for no authorization out of the number of accounts receiving service
  • Percent of private-duty nursing hours provided by LPNs:  Number of nursing hours provided to all clients divided by the number of hours provided by the LPNs
  • Percent of admitted patients eligible for Cincinnati Children's home care that utilize Cincinnati Children's home care services
  • Percent of school days attended by home psychiatric program patients
  • Percent of work days attended by home psychiatric program parents
  • Private-duty nursing hours stratified by race:  Number of visits filled divided by number of visits requested by race
  • Percent of referrals accepted that are medicaid
  • Percent of referrals accepted: Agency nursing-Infusion only
  • Percent of referrals accepted: Private Duty Nursing
  • Overall home care services family satisfaction:  Percent of responses on the Press Ganey Survey with the rating score of "very good" (CE)
  • Percent of claims denied: New claims
  • Percent of claims denied: Reauthorized claims
  • Reliability of synagis prophylaxis in high risk newborns, per national protocol: % of patients given all five doses within 25-30 days after prior dose.