Our services
Valley home health services
Valley Home Health Services is a Medicare-certified IVCH agency that provides skilled care to patients recovering at home from illness, surgery or injury. Specific services that can be brought to your home include:
- Skilled nursing.
- Home health aides.
- Infusion therapy.
- Medical social worker.
- Physical therapy.
- Speech therapy.
- Occupational therapy.
Call 815.224.1307 for more information.
Quality measures
The quality measures chart below provides you with information on how well Valley Home Health Services is caring for our patients. This tool is provided to the public by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) from the data that each Home Health agency supplies on each patient. Results from 4/10/2007 – 3/12/2008.
| Quality measures | Percentage for Valley Home Health Services | National average |
| Higher percentages are better | ||
| Percentage of patients who get better at walking or moving around. | 40% |
43% |
| Percentage of patients who get better at getting in and out of bed. | 67% |
54% |
| Percentage of patients who have less pain when moving around. | 74% |
64% |
| Percentage of patients whose bladder control improves. | 71% |
50% |
| Percentage of patients who get better at bathing. | 52% |
65% |
| Percentage of patients who get better at taking their medicines correctly (by mouth). | 61% |
43% |
| Percentage of patients who are short of breath less often. | 69% |
61% |
| Percentage of patients who stay at home after an episode of home health care ends. | 76% |
68% |
| NEW! Percentage of patients whose wounds improved or healed after an operation. | 91% |
79% |
| Lower percentages are better | ||
| Percentage of patients who had to be admitted to the hospital. | 22% |
28% |
| Percentage of patients who need urgent, unplanned medical care. | 22% |
21% |
| NEW! Percentage of patients who need unplanned medical care related to a wound that is new, is worse, or has become infected. | 2% |
1% |
