Special Home Health Care LLC
13303 South Ridgeland Avenue Unit C, Palos Heights, IL 60463 · Medicare-certified home health agency
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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.
51.96% of this agency’s patients got better at taking their medicines correctly by mouth across about 27 recent Medicare patients, against 88.07% nationally.
How this agency’s patients did
| Measure | This agency | National | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Started care in a timely manner 55 patients | 52.73% | 96.51% | too few patients to compare |
| Got better at walking or moving around 38 patients | 65.43% | 88.6% | too few patients to compare |
| Got better at getting in and out of bed 38 patients | 60.81% | 89.71% | too few patients to compare |
| Got better at bathing 39 patients | 68.56% | 90.63% | too few patients to compare |
| Breathing improved 20 patients | 100% | 91.31% | too few patients to compare |
| Got better at taking their medicines correctly by mouth 27 patients | 51.96% | 88.07% | too few patients to compare |
| Medication problems acted on promptly by a doctor 55 patients | 98.18% | 94.45% | too few patients to compare |
| Discharge function score 39 patients | 53.85% | 71.74% | too few patients to compare |
| Checked whether the patient had a flu shot 35 patients | 48.57% | 64.24% | too few patients to compare |
| Developed or worsened a pressure sore 39 patients | 0% | 0.23% | too few patients to compare |
| Had a fall causing major injury 55 patients | 1.82% | 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
| Measure | This agency | National | Medicare’s call |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patients who went back to living in the community after their care Higher is better. 79 patients | 78.36% | 77.71% | Same As National Rate |
| Patients admitted to a hospital when it might have been prevented Lower is better. 20 patients | 13.31% | 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.
About this agency
Medicare-certified since: 12/13/2022
Medicare spending per episode of care: 1.16× the national figure — 16% more than average. This measures cost, not quality.
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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 Special Home Health Care LLC 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.