Care Experience Week · September 28 – October 2

Our Care Experience mission:Let’s get to First Base ⚾

Exceptional Care Experience is a journey — and we’re taking it one base at a time. Our first milestone is increasing our positive CAHPS response rate.

One base at a time.

Care Experience Grand Slam field with First Base highlightedAn aerial baseball field. First base, Response Rate, is spotlit and celebrated. Second base Timeliness, third base Service Excellence and home plate Sustained Excellence are shown dimmed as future stages. A runner sprints from home plate to first base and stops there.CARE EXPERIENCE ALL STAREST. 202523H2nd Base: Timeliness3rd Base:Service ExcellenceHome Plate: Sustained Excellence11st Base:Response RateOur focusthis year
2nd Base · Locked
Easy, All-Star! One base at a time 😉
3rd Base · Locked
First, let’s master First Base.
Home Plate · Locked
Our Care Experience journey is just getting started.

Hover the other bases — they can wait. One base at a time.

Care Experience isn’t complicated

It is the way we already care for people — made visible.

There is one milestone right now

First Base: a positive CAHPS response rate.

Everything else can wait

We take the journey one base at a time.

Three simple things

How do we get to First Base?

Not a training module. Three habits that fit inside the conversations you are already having.

Patients, members, caregivers and families in home health care.

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Step 1 · Connect & build rapport

Let them know their feedback matters.

Great Care Experience starts with connection. Make sure the people we care for know that we genuinely want to hear about their experience.

Introduce yourself, every visit

Say who you are and what you are going to do today.

Invite their voice out loud

Tell them plainly that we want to hear how their experience is going.

Leave the door open

Make it clear that praise and concerns are equally welcome.

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Step 2 · Ask for real-time feedback

Listen while we can still make a difference.

Real-time feedback helps us understand how patients and families are feeling while they are still receiving care.

Neutral or negative feedback
  • Leadership is notified.
  • Service recovery happens immediately.
  • We address the concern while there is still an opportunity to improve the experience.
Positive feedback
  • Celebrate what is working.
  • If contact information is provided, reach out and express gratitude.
  • Reinforce how valuable their feedback is.
  • Encourage them to keep sharing feedback if a formal survey arrives later.
Home Health · Real-Time Feedback
Open Real-Time Feedback

Also printed on the back flap of the home health guidebook.

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Step 3 · Turn positive moments into positive CAHPS responses

When someone tells us we did something great — don’t let the moment end there.

Thank them, reinforce what their feedback makes possible, and share the approved language about the survey they may receive.

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Thank them genuinely

A moment of real gratitude, in your own words.

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Reinforce what it means

Their feedback tells us what mattered most.

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Explain how we use it

It helps us identify and scale the practices that work.

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Share the approved survey language

Let them know a survey may arrive, using the wording below.

Use the approved wording. Keep it voluntary and confidential. Never suggest how someone should answer, never offer anything in exchange for a response, never ask to see their answers, and never single out a member for a high score.
See every resource in Know Your CAHPS

Know Your CAHPS

What the survey looks like, what people are asked about, what you can say, what to avoid, and where the QR code lives — separated for Home Health and Hospice, because the language is different.

Open the resources

How are we doing?

Our Care Experience scoreboard — every agency, one snapshot.

See the full scoreboard
Our response rate
34.5%

1,772 responses so far

National average
33.1%

The line we are chasing

Agencies at or above it
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Momentum worth celebrating

What our members & families are telling us

Read more voices

PT and OT have been outstanding. Always nice and always explains what we are doing and what the results will be if I work hard.

📚 Clear ExplanationsHome HealthAgency: Fontana
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The road to 5-Star Care Experience

The whole journey — and exactly where we are on it.

We are here
1st Base
Positive CAHPS Response Rate

More patients, members, families and caregivers sharing their positive experience.

Coming next
2nd Base
Timeliness

Responding promptly and communicating arrival windows.

Easy, All-Star! One base at a time 😉

Future focus
3rd Base
Service Excellence

Listening actively, explaining clearly, answering every question.

First, let’s master First Base.

Our North Star
Home Plate
5-Star Care Experience

Exceptional experience, sustained year over year.

Our Care Experience journey is just getting started.

One base at a time. ⚾⭐