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COMFORT HOME HEALTH FOUNDATION, INC.
NPI 1255808192
Voluntary or Charitable in Palm Harbor, FL


Patient Care Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

NPI Status: Active since October 29, 2018

Contact Information

3515 PALM HARBOR BLVD STE A
PALM HARBOR, FL
ZIP 34683
Phone: (727) 682-0055
Fax: (727) 935-4844

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Table of Contents

  1. NPI Profile Information
  2. Primary Taxonomy
  3. Authorized Official
  4. Nursing Home Compare Information
  5. CLIA Information
  6. NPI Validation
  7. Other Providers Same Location
  8. Frequently Asked Questions
  • Organization
  • Voluntary or Charitable
  • CLIA Number: 10D0998574
  • CLIA Cert. Type: Home Health Agency
  • CLIA Exp. Date: 06-20-2027

About COMFORT HOME HEALTH FOUNDATION, INC.

This page provides the complete NPI Profile along with additional information for Comfort Home Health Foundation, Inc., a provider established in Palm Harbor, Florida operating as a Voluntary Or Charitable. The healthcare provider is registered in the NPI registry with number 1255808192 assigned on October 2018. The practitioner's primary taxonomy code is 251V00000X. The provider is registered as an organization and their NPI record was last updated 6 years ago. The authorized official of this NPI record is Emelita M Vardeleon (Ceo)

NPI
1255808192
Provider Name
COMFORT HOME HEALTH FOUNDATION, INC.
Entity Type
Organization
Location Address
3515 PALM HARBOR BLVD STE A PALM HARBOR, FL 34683
Location Phone
(727) 682-0055
Location Fax
(727) 935-4844
Mailing Address
3515 PALM HARBOR BLVD STE A PALM HARBOR, FL 34683
Mailing Phone
(727) 682-0055
Mailing Fax
(727) 935-4844
Is Sole Proprietor?
No
Is Organization Subpart?
No
Enumeration Date
10-29-2018
Last Update Date
12-19-2019
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According to the Home Health Compare program data, Comfort Home Health Foundation, Inc. has a much above average overall quality rating based on the provider's performance on seven separate quality measures including: timely initiation of care, improvement in ambulation, bed transferring, bathing, shortness of breath, management of oral medications and relapse in acute care hospitalizations. The Quality of Patient Star Rating for this provider is 5 out of 5 and summarizes some of the current health care provider performance measures.

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Specialty - Primary Taxonomy

The NPI enumerator requires providers to submit at least one taxonomy code. A taxonomy code is a unique 10-character code that describes the healthcare provider type, classification, and the area of specialization. There could be only one primary taxonomy code per NPI record. For individual NPIs the license data is associated to the taxonomy code.

Classification

Voluntary or Charitable

Taxonomy Code
251V00000X
Type
Agencies

Authorized Official

The authorized official is the designated individual with the legal authority to make changes to the provider’s official NPI record. For organizations, the authorized official must be a general partner, chairman of the board, CEO, CFO or a direct owner holding at least a 5 percent stake in the medical organization.

Authorized Official Name

EMELITA M VARDELEON

Authorized Official Title
CEO
Authorized Official Phone
(727) 682-0055

Nursing Home Compare Information

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services publishes Home Health Compare quality of care data to provide consumers an easy way to compare "Medicare-certified" home health agencies throughout the nation. "Medicare-certified" home health agencies are approved by Medicare and meet certain federal health and safety requirements.

The Home Health Compare information helps consumers learn how well home health agencies care for their patients, how often each agency used best practices when caring for its patients and what patients said about their recent home health care experience.

Quality of Patient Care Rating Quality of Patient Care Rating
The quality of patient care star rating summarizes 8 of the 23 quality measures reported on Home Health Compare. It provides a single indicator of an agency's performance compared to other agencies.		 - 5 out of 5 stars - COMFORT HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC performed better than most other agencies on selected measures.
Ownership Type Ownership Type
Home health agencies can be run by private for-profit corporations, non-profit corporations, religious affiliated organizations or government entities. The type of ownership may affect agency resources and how services are organized. Quality can vary in home health agencies within each of the different types of ownership. Each agency needs to be judged on its own merits.		Proprietary
Offers Nursing Care Offers Nursing Care?
The home health agency offers care given or supervised by registered nurses. Nurses provide direct care; manage, observe, and evaluate a patient’s care; and teach the patient and his or her family caregiver. Examples include: giving IV drugs, shots, or tube feedings; changing dressings; and teaching about diabetes care. Any service that could be done safely by a non-medical person (or by yourself) without the supervision of a nurse isn’t skilled nursing care. Medicare covers home health skilled nursing care that's part time and intermittent.		Yes
Offers Physical Therapy Offers Physical Therapy?
The home health agency offers treatment of injury and disease by mechanical means, like heat, light, exercise, and massage.		Yes
Offers Occupational Therapy Offers Occupational Therapy?
The home health agency offers services given to help you return to usual activities (like bathing, preparing meals, and housekeeping) after illness either on an inpatient or outpatient basis.		Yes
Offers Speech Therapy Offers Speech Therapy?
The home health agency offers services to assist with problems involving speech, language, and swallowing. Communication problems can be present at birth or develop after an injury or illness, like a stroke.		Yes
Offers Medical Social Services Medical Social Services?
The home health agency offers services to help with social and emotional concerns related to your illness. This might include counseling or help in finding resources in your community.		Yes
Offers Home Health Aide Offers Home Health Aide?
The home health agency offers part time or intermittent services to help with daily living activities.		Yes
Medicare Certification Date02-01-2002
Number of episodes used to calculate how much Medicare spends at this agency Number of episodes used to calculate how much Medicare spends at this agency
Number of episodes of care used to calculate how much Medicare spends on an episode of care at this agency, compared to Medicare spending across all agencies nationally.		435
How often patients got better at walking or moving around? How often patients got better at walking or moving around?
This quality measure shows the percentage of home health quality episodes during which the patient improved in ability to ambulate.		96.9%
How often patients got better at getting in and out of bed? How often patients got better at getting in and out of bed?
This quality measure shows the percentage of home health quality episodes during which the patient improved in ability to get in and out of bed.		100%
How often patients got better at bathing? How often patients got better at bathing?
This quality measure shows the percentage of home health quality episodes during which the patient got better at bathing self.		100%
How often patients' breathing improved? How often patients' breathing improved?
This quality measure shows the percentage of home health quality episodes during which the patient became less short of breath or dyspneic.		98.4%
How often the home health team began their patients' care in a timely manner? How often the home health team began their patients' care in a timely manner?
This quality measure shows the percentage of episodes of care initiated or resumed on the date the physician ordered, or within within 24-48 hours of referral.		99.8%
How often patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth? How often patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth?
This quality measure shows the percentage of home health quality episodes during which the patient improved in ability to take their medicines correctly (by mouth).		100%
How often the home health team made sure that their patients have received a flu shot for the current flu season? How often the home health team made sure that their patients have received a flu shot for the current flu season?
This quality measure shows the percentage of home health quality episodes during which patients received the influenza immunization for the current flu season.		84.8%
How often physician-recommended actions to address medication issues were completed timely? How often physician-recommended actions to address medication issues were completed timely?
This quality measure shows the percentage of home health quality episodes forwhich a drug regimen review was conducted at the start of care or resumption of care and completion of recommended actions from timely follow-up with a physician occurred each time potential clinically significant medication issues were identified throughout that quality episode.		97.4%
Percent of Residents Experiencing One or More Falls with Major Injury How often a patient had one or more falls with a major injury?
This measure reports the percentage of patients who suffer falls that may result in major injuries and are a risk for patients living at the health home.		1.7%
Application of Percent of Long-Term Care Hospital Patients with an Admission and Discharge Functional Assessment How often a patient has an admission and discharge functional assessment and an admission care plan that addresses function?
This measure displays hows how often the home health team completed a functional assessment for patients at both admission and discharge, and developed a functional care plan at admission.		99.8%
How much Medicare spends on an episode of care at this agency, compared to Medicare spending across all agencies nationally? How much Medicare spends on an episode of care at this agency, compared to Medicare spending across all agencies nationally?
This measure evaluates Home Health resource use relative to the resource use of the national median of all Home Health providers. Specifically, the measure assesses the Medicare spending performed by the Home Health provider and other healthcare providers during an MSPB-PAC episode.		1.02%

CLIA Information

The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) of 1988 applies to facilities or sites that test human specimens for health assessment or to diagnose, prevent, or treat disease. The CLIA Program sets standards for clinical laboratory testing and issues certificates. The NPI / CLIA crosswalk information for this NPI number is:

CLIA Number
10D0998574
Facility Type
Home Health Agency
Certificate Effective Date
June 21, 2025
Certificate Expiration Date
June 20, 2027
Laboratory Director
CHRISTIE LITARDO
Certificate Type
Certificate of Waiver
Certificate Type Description
This CLIA certificate is issued to Comfort Home Health Foundation, Inc. to perform only waived tests. CLIA defines waived tests as simple tests with a low risk for an incorrect result. Waived tests include certain tests listed in CLIA regulations, tests cleared by the FDA for home use and tests approved by the FDA for waived status and that meet CLIA waiver criteria.

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NPI NPI Number Validation

How NPI Validation Works

The NPI validation process uses the ISO-standard Luhn algorithm, a mathematical "handshake", to ensure that a provider's 10-digit ID is authentic and free of common typing errors.

To verify the NPI 1255808192, we treat the final digit (2) as the Check Digit—the target answer we need to reach. The process begins by taking the first nine digits and adding a constant value of 24, which accounts for the "80840" prefix required for all U.S. health identifiers. We then double every other digit starting from the right and sum the individual digits of those results together. For this specific NPI, that total comes to 58. The final step is to find the difference between that total and the next multiple of ten (60 - 58 = 2).

Digit-by-digit view

Use the first nine digits for the calculation. Starting from the right, double every other digit. The last digit is the check digit and is not part of the calculation.

Pos 1
1
Doubled → 2
Pos 2
2
Unchanged
Pos 3
5
Doubled → 10 → 1 + 0
Pos 4
5
Unchanged
Pos 5
8
Doubled → 16 → 1 + 6
Pos 6
0
Unchanged
Pos 7
8
Doubled → 16 → 1 + 6
Pos 8
1
Unchanged
Pos 9
9
Doubled → 18 → 1 + 8
Check
2
Target digit
Regular digit Doubled digit Check digit

Step 1: Double every other digit from the right

Starting with the rightmost digit of the first nine digits, double every other value. If doubling creates a two-digit number, add those digits together.

1 → 2 5 → 10 → 1 8 → 16 → 7 8 → 16 → 7 9 → 18 → 9

Step 2: Add all digits plus the NPI constant

Add the transformed values, the unchanged digits, and the constant 24.

2 + 2 + 1 + 0 + 5 + 1 + 6 + 0 + 1 + 6 + 1 + 1 + 8 + 24 = 58

Step 3: Find the amount needed to reach the next multiple of 10

The next multiple of ten after 58 is 60. The difference is the calculated check digit.

60 - 58 = 2
This NPI is valid
The calculated check digit is 2, which matches the last digit of 1255808192.

Other Providers at the Same Location


The following 2 providers are registered at the same or a nearby location.

MS. SUSANA REBECCA P VARDELEON , PT
Physical Therapist
3515 PALM HARBOR BLVD STE A
PALM HARBOR, FL 34683
Pinellas County (727) 682-0056
A PALMS PERSONAL CARE & HOMEMAKING SERVICES, LLC.
Nursing Care
3515 PALM HARBOR BLVD STE A
PALM HARBOR, FL 34683
Pinellas County (727) 682-0054

Frequently Asked Questions

What is COMFORT HOME HEALTH FOUNDATION, INC.'s NPI number?

The NPI number assigned to this healthcare provider is 1255808192, enumerated as an "organization" on October 29, 2018.

Where is the provider located?

The provider is located at 3515 PALM HARBOR BLVD STE A PALM HARBOR, FL 34683 and the phone number is (727) 682-0055.

What is the provider's specialty?

Voluntary or Charitable with taxonomy code 251V00000X.