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Chicot Memorial Medical Center Home Health Agenc

2729 Highway 65 And 82 South, Lake Village, AR 71653 · Medicare-certified home health agency

3.5/5
CMS quality of patient care
3.5 of 5

This star is built from outcome measures across the agency’s recent Medicare patients and lags real conditions by a year or more. CMS does not publish the patient count behind it here, so a small agency’s star can rest on a thin sample. Treat it as one signal, not a verdict — the measure-by-measure record is on Care Compare below.

83.7% of this agency’s patients got better at walking or moving around across about 237 recent Medicare patients, against 88.6% nationally. 91% of the 53 families surveyed said they would definitely recommend it.

How this agency’s patients did

MeasureThis agencyNational
Started care in a timely manner
352 patients
100%96.51%about the same
Got better at walking or moving around
237 patients
83.7%88.6%about the same
Got better at getting in and out of bed
234 patients
92.17%89.71%about the same
Got better at bathing
237 patients
85.77%90.63%about the same
Breathing improved
192 patients
90.24%91.31%about the same
Got better at taking their medicines correctly by mouth
234 patients
83.8%88.07%about the same
Medication problems acted on promptly by a doctor
352 patients
100%94.45%about the same
Discharge function score
237 patients
79.75%71.74%better
Checked whether the patient had a flu shot
226 patients
54.42%64.24%worse
Developed or worsened a pressure sore
252 patients
0.41%0.23%too few patients to compare
Had a fall causing major injury
352 patients
1.7%0.93%too few patients to compare

These come from the OASIS assessments the agency itself submits to Medicare, so they are self-reported and lag by a year or more. “Better” and “worse” here mean this provider differs from the national figure by more than 10% of it and by more than half a percentage point; anything closer reads “about the same”. That second test matters on the rare-event rows — a national rate of 0.2% would otherwise make almost any provider look remarkable. CMS does not publish a significance test for these measures, so where fewer than 100 patients sit behind a rate — or where the national rate is low enough that a handful of events would swing it — we print both numbers and decline to grade, rather than call a named provider worse than average on the strength of three patients.

Hospital stays and getting home

MeasureThis agencyNationalMedicare’s call
Patients who went back to living in the community after their care
Higher is better. 171 patients
79.99%77.71%Same As National Rate
Patients readmitted to a hospital when it might have been prevented
Lower is better. 93 patients
3.67%4.12%Same As National Rate
Patients admitted to a hospital when it might have been prevented
Lower is better. 100 patients
11.36%10.83%Same As National Rate

These three are risk-adjusted by CMS for how sick each agency’s patients were, which the table above is not — so they are the fairer comparison between agencies serving different populations. The verdict in the last column is Medicare’s own, published with the rate; we have not recalculated it.

What patients said (HHCAHPS survey)

5/5
Patient survey summary
5 of 5
MeasurePercent of patients
Team gave care in a professional way92%
Team communicated well93%
Team discussed medicines, pain and home safety93%
Rated the agency 9 or 10 out of 1094%
Would definitely recommend the agency91%

Based on 53 completed surveys, a 19% response rate. A low response rate means the families who answered may not represent everyone the agency served.

About this agency

Ownership: Proprietary
Medicare-certified since: 07/06/1988
Services offered: Skilled nursing, Physical therapy, Occupational therapy, Speech therapy, Home health aide
Medicare spending per episode of care: 1.25× the national figure — 25% more than average. This measures cost, not quality.

Other Medicare-certified agencies in Arkansas

Families are usually choosing between several agencies, not evaluating one. Each link opens the same record for that agency. See all agencies in Arkansas.

What this rating measures

Medicare rates home-health agencies on a quality of patient care star — based on how much patients improve (walking, getting in and out of bed, managing medications) and how often care follows recommended practices. See our guides on home care vs. assisted living and the Medicare post-hospital benefit.

Full quality record

The complete, current CMS record for this provider — every quality measure and patient-experience result — lives on Medicare’s official Care Compare tool. We link straight to it rather than repackaging a stale copy.

View Chicot Memorial Medical Center Home Health Agenc on Medicare Care Compare ↗

Certification, contact details, and star rating from the CMS Care Compare dataset (public domain), retrieved 2026-07-17. Quality measures from the CMS home health public reporting file, July 2026 release. Care Compare is the authoritative source for the full quality record and for the provider’s current phone number.

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