STAR-Setting Targets-Achieving Results
Using the Setting Targets - Achieving Results (STAR) website, home health agencies can set and monitor outcome targets for Plans of Action (POAs) developed for the Publicly Reported Outcome Quality Measures (see listing below.) Registered agencies can view their Quality Measure scores, select appropriate targets and track their improvement progress over a period of time.
- Acute Care Hospitalization
- Emergent Care
- Discharge to Community
- Improvement in Ambulation
- Improvement in Bathing
- Improvement in Dyspnea
- Improvement in Management of Oral Medications
- Improvement in Pain Interfering with Movement
- Improvement in Status of Surgical Wounds
- Improvement in Transferring
- Improvement in Urinary Incontinence
The home health agency publicly reported quality measure data on the Home Health STAR site are the data publicly reported by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Home Health Compare 
. The quality measures are derived from the OASIS (Outcome and Assessment Information Set) data set and are updated quarterly. The publicly reported data, which are available to both registered and unregistered visitors to the STAR site, are rounded to the nearest whole number (for example, 10%). In contrast, registered home health agencies can view more detailed quality measure scores to 1 decimal place precision (for example, 10.3%).
Registration on this site www.hhqi-star.org is free and available to all Medicare and/or Medicaid certified home health agencies. To register for the home health STAR site, please click Create an Account . Please have your Medicare/Medicaid provider number available when creating an account. A key code is also necessary to create an account. This code is available by calling your QIO.
If you are already registered, please click Login to sign into your account and begin using the STAR site.
For instructions and other electronic resources, please click on Help .
This site was developed by Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) under contract to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). KFMC believes that achieving high quality is an on-going process. Our goal is to provide home health agencies with the tools and information needed to improve the quality of your services. We encourage HHAs to raise the bar for quality by continually reevaluating quality of care and identifying areas for improvement.