Covenant Home Care is a hospice care center situated at Pottsville, Pennsylvania. This palliative care is medicare certified, hence if you are covered by medicare, medicare will pay the hospice for your care. Covenant Home Care accommodated approx. 112 Medicare beneficiaries whose average age was 80 years in CY2016. Unique hospice identification number provided by medicare to this hospice care is 391591. Covenant Home Care comes under the CMS regional office located at Philadelphia. This CMS regional office covers all hospices located in Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia. Covenant Home Care has gone 3 time change of ownership, latest on 16 Dec, 2017 and previously on 15 Dec, 2017. Services provided at Covenant Home Care mainly includes home health aide, counseling, homemaker, medical social services, medical supply services, nursing services, occupational therapy, physician services, physical therapy, short term inpatient care, speech pathology services. Covenant Home Care provides special care for people who are terminally ill. This involves a team-oriented approach that addresses the medical, physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient. Hospice also provides support to the patient’s family or caregiver.
Complete Hospice Profile:
Covenant Home Care type, unique identification code, ownership type, accreditation,short term inpatient care type, address, contact number, fax number and all other information is provided as below.
Recipients can directly walkin or can call on the below given phone number for appointment.
Medicare certification details of Covenant Home Care with certification date, type, current status, certification provider, MAC, CBSA Code are stated below.
Medicare Certified:
Yes
Medicare Certification Date:
21 Nov, 1994
Current Status:
Active Provider
Latest visit of the Health or LSC survey:
16 Feb, 2018
Status at the time of certification survey:
In Compliance
Waiver of any life safety code:
No
Latest Certification Type:
Recertification
Certificate Provider:
Philadelphia CMS Regional Office
MAC
Cgs Administrators Hhh
CBSA Code
99939 (Rural)
National Hospice Spending and Utilization (2016):
National Hospice Spending and Utilization based on CY2016 for Covenant Home Care are stated below it includes number of beneficiaries, average age of beneficiaries accommodated in hospice, total medicare payment amount received by hospice, total charge amount of the hospice.
Beneficiaries
112
RHC Days (in %)
100
Average Age of Beneficiary
80 year
Total Medicare Payment Amount
$ 660,323
Total Medicare Standard Payment Amount
$ 734,967
Total Charge Amount
$ 1,204,976
Average Service Hours per Day
Covenant Home Care provided an average of 0.39 hours per day of home health, 0.31 hours per day of Skilled Nursing, 0.09 hours per day of Social Service hospice care.
Average Hospice Care Days
Covenant Home Care have 26 Medicare beneficiaries with 7 or fewer hospice care days, 21 Medicare beneficiaries with more than 60 hospice care days, Medicare beneficiaries with more than 180 hospice care days.
Beneficiaries by Gender
Covenant Home Care rendered hospice services to 59 Male and 53 Female Medicare beneficiaries in a calendar year.
Beneficiaries by Race
Covenant Home Care provided hospice care to 103 White, 9 not disclosed Medicare beneficiaries in a calendar year.
Medicare/Medicaid Eligible Beneficiaries
At Covenant Home Care, 34 beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage and 20 beneficiaries were eligible for Medicaid for at least one month of hospice care in the calendar year.
Beneficiaries with Primary Disease Diagnosis
At Covenant Home Care, distinct Medicare beneficiaries who received hospice care for a primary diagnosis are 59 of Cancer, 22 of Heart Disease,
Site-of-service Hospice Beneficiaries
At Covenant Home Care, distinct Medicare beneficiaries who received the majority of their hospice care days are 89 at home,
Services Provided:
Services available at Covenant Home Care are mentioned below along with the information that who will provide the service like whether it will be provided by hospice staff or will be arranged from any 3rd source or outer source.
Services Available
Provided By
Home Health Aide
Hospice Staff
Counseling
Hospice Staff
Homemaker
Hospice Staff
Medical Social Services
Hospice Staff
Medical Supply Services
Provided under Arrangement
Nursing Services
Hospice Staff
Occupational Therapy
Provided under Arrangement
Physician Services
Hospice Staff
Physical Therapy
Provided under Arrangement
Short Term Inpatient Care
Provided under Arrangement
Speech Pathology Services
Provided under Arrangement
Quality of Patient Care:
Quality of patient care is measured based on the survey done by the patients who received the hospice care, as well as the experiences of their informal primary caregivers.
Main points included in the survey are treatment preferences, beliefs/values addressed (if desired by the patient), pain screening, pain assessment, dyspnea screening, dyspnea treatment,patients treated with an opioid who are given a bowel regimen.
Measure Name
Score (in %)
National Average
Treatment Preferences
100.0
98.3
Beliefs/Values Addressed (if desired by the patient)
96.2
93.6
Pain Screening
100.0
93.9
Pain Assessment
Not Available
77.7
Dyspnea Screening
100.0
97.3
Dyspnea Treatment
Not Available
94.6
Patients Treated with an Opioid who are Given a Bowel Regimen
Not Available
93.3
Employee Count:
Covenant Home Care employee information is available below according to the service area, it is also divided among volunteer and employed count.
Services
Employed Count
Volunteer Count
Home Health Aide
2
0
Counseling
1
0
Homemaker
2
0
Medical Social Services
1
0
Registered Nurses
2
0
Practical/Vocational Nurses
3
0
Other Personnel
0
3
Physician Services
1
0
TOTAL
12
3
Authorized/Official Person Profile:
Officially authorized person to contact for any management issues or complaints of this hospice are as below. Person's position and contact details are also mentioned below.
Name:
Ms. Sandra Lee Levengood
Position:
Executive Director
Contact Number:
800-726-8761
Professional Identification Codes:
NPI number stands for National Provider Identifier which is a unique 10-digit identification number issued to health care providers in the United States by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
NPI details of stated hospice are as mentioned below.
NPI Number:
1265514392
NPI Enumeration Date:
19 Oct, 2006
NPI Last Update On:
04 Oct, 2011
Medical Licenses:
Hospice can have one or more medical licenses for different specialities in the same state or different states. Related medical licenses for Covenant Home Care are as mentioned below.
Specialization
License Number
State
Status
Hospice Care, Community Based
159199
Pennsylvania
Primary
Other Medical Identifiers:
Other legacy medical identifiers of the hospice such as Medicaid, Medicare PIN, NSC, UPIN etc. are mentioned as below.
Identifier
Type
State
Issuer
391591
Other
Pennsylvania
Blue Cross Hospice Prov.
1007739570005
Medicaid
Pennsylvania
100773957
Medicaid
Pennsylvania
1007739570004
Medicaid
Pennsylvania
86900
Other
Pennsylvania
Geisinger Hospice Prov.no
1838
Other
Pennsylvania
Blue Shield Hospice Prov.
391591
Other
Pennsylvania
Keystone Hospice Prov.no.
Business Mailing Address:
Business mailing address can be used for mailing purpose only, for visiting purpose patients need to refer above mentioned address.