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Home Care Quality Measures -
This percentage addresses the ratio of patients who get better at walking or moving around in a wheelchair safely during their home care treatment. Many patients who receive home care are recovering from an injury or illness, and may need help from a person or equipment (like a cane) to walk safely. If they use a wheelchair, they may have difficulty moving around safely. Getting better at walking or moving around may be a sign that home care patients are making progress or meeting their goals on the road to recovery. Why is this important? Most people value being able to take care of themselves, and in order to be as independent as possible, they need to walk, move around and do as much as they can for themselves, even if it takes longer than having someone else do things for them. Their home care staff and other caregivers should encourage them to be as active as they can be while still remaining safe. Home care staff will evaluate their need for—and teach them how to use any—special devices or equipment that they may need to help them increase their ability to perform various activities without assistance. If home care patients can walk with little help, they can be more independent. This can affect their health in a positive way, as their ability to walk and move around by themselves may help them live independently as long as possible. The data used to compute the indicator percentage for the system overall and each individual facility was collected from July 2005 to June 2006. The U.S. and state averages for this measure were provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
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