Unison Home Care Services
A home health agency in Cheshire, Connecticut 06410
700 W Johnson Ave, Ste 114, Cheshire, Connecticut 06410. (860) 347-4446.
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The short answer
Record last released by CMS on Oct 21, 2026.
- Not rated quality of patient care rating
- Not rated patient survey rating
- 1 deficiencies cited in the last three years
Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.
What these words mean2
- Inspection (survey)
- A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
- Deficiency, citation, violation
- What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
What did inspectors find?
The last inspection on record was on Sep 4, 2024: a recertification inspection.
1 deficiency cited in the last three years.
CMS, QCOR home health inspection reports. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated monthly.
When those deficiencies happened
1 deficiency in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2024. Most serious: Standard-level. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.
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Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.
Each deficiency, as cited
Rule titles as CMS’s inspectors cite them, set in sentence case.
CMS, QCOR home health inspection reports. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated monthly.
Sep 4, 2024: recertification inspection1 deficiency
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Authentication
The inspectors’ words, 441 words
“Authentication CFR(s): 484.110(b) Standard: Authentication. All entries must be legible, clear, complete, and appropriately authenticated, dated, and timed. Authentication must include a signature and a title (occupation), or a secured computer entry by a unique identifier, of a primary author who has reviewed and approved the entry. This Standard is not met as evidenced by: Based on review of clinical records, review of an agency policy and interview agency personnel, for two of seven patients (Patients’ # 1 and #2) in the survey sample, who received nursing services, the agency’s nurse failed to ensure clinical records were completed and incorporated into the patient’s record in accordance with the agency’s policy. The findings include: Interview and review of Patient #1 and #2’s clinical record with the Administrator and Registered Nurse (RN) #1 on 09/03/2024 at 2:45 PM, identified Patient #1 was admitted to the home health agency on 08/21/2024 (10 days prior to survey onsite) and Patient #2 was admitted on 08/20/2024 (11 days prior to survey onsite) and indicated the documentation had not been submitted to the agency by RN #2. The Administrator failed to identify the Patients’ start of care nursing assessments, medication profiles and plans of care dated 08/20/2024 and 08/21/2024 were completed, submitted and incorporated into the medical records in accordance with the agency’s policy and procedure. a. Patient #1 had a start of care date of 08/21/2024 with diagnoses that included traumatic brain injury, high blood pressure, and hypothyroidism. The physician’s orders for the initial certification period of 08/21/2024 to 10/19/2024 included nursing services twice daily for sixty days for nursing assessments and medication administration. b. Patient #2 had a start of care date of 08/20/2024 with diagnoses that included catatonic schizophrenia. The physician’s orders for the initial certification period of 08/20/2024 to 10/18/2024 included nursing services daily for sixty days for nursing assessments and medication administration. i. Interview and review of Patient #1 and #2’s clinical record with the Administrator and Registered Nurse (RN) #1 on 09/03/2024 at 2:45 PM, identified Patient #1 was admitted to the home health agency on 08/21/2024 and Patient #2 was admitted on 08/20/2024 and indicated the documentation had not been submitted to the agency by RN #2. The Administrator failed to identify the Patients’ start of care nursing assessments, medication profiles and plans of care dated 08/20/2024 and 08/21/2024 were completed, submitted and incorporated into the medical records in accordance with the agency’s policy and procedure. Review of the agency’s Clinical Record System policy identified all clinicians would submit paperwork within three (3) days of a visit. All paperwork would be incorporated into the medical charts within seven (7) days.”
The one inspection in the last three years
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 2024 | Recertification inspection | 1 deficiency cited |
Is it certified?
- Medicare-certified home health agency since Apr 3, 2000.
- Ownership: proprietary (for profit).
- No For hospices, home health agencies, hospitals and dialysis facilities, CMS writes deficiencies at two levels. Standard is the usual one; condition-level is the more serious, when a problem is serious enough that the provider doesn’t meet a whole condition of taking part in Medicare. Source: CMS, State Operations Manual. deficiency on record in the last three years.
CMS, Home Health Care Agencies. Released Oct 21, 2026. Updated quarterly.
CMS, QCOR home health inspection reports. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated monthly.
Has anything been proven against it?
- CMS doesn’t publish fines or other penalties for home health agencies, so none are shown.
- 0 deficiencies cited in the last three years came from inspections that included a complaint investigation.
CMS, QCOR home health inspection reports. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated monthly.
Who does the caring?
- Offers nursing care, physical therapy and occupational therapy.
- Doesn’t offer speech pathology, medical social services and home health aide services.
- CMS doesn’t publish staffing levels for home health agencies.
CMS, Home Health Care Agencies. Released Oct 21, 2026. Updated quarterly.
Who owns it?
- CMS’s ownership file has no owners listed for this agency.
CMS, Home Health Agency All Owners and Home Health Agency Enrollments. Released Sep 29, 2026. Updated quarterly.
How do patients fare?
- CMS gives no CMS rates some kinds of place from 1 to 5 stars, more stars meaning better on CMS’s own measures for that kind: for a nursing home, its health inspections, staffing and quality measures. A rating is CMS’s summary of those measures; it doesn’t promise good care. Source: CMS, Care Compare and the Five-Star Quality Rating System.: “The number of patient episodes for this measure is too small to report.”
- CMS gives no CMS rates some kinds of place from 1 to 5 stars, more stars meaning better on CMS’s own measures for that kind: for a nursing home, its health inspections, staffing and quality measures. A rating is CMS’s summary of those measures; it doesn’t promise good care. Source: CMS, Care Compare and the Five-Star Quality Rating System.: “No survey results are available for this period.”
CMS, Home Health Care Agencies and Home Health Patient Survey. Released Oct 21, 2026. Updated quarterly.
| Measure | Rating |
|---|---|
| Quality of patient care ratingCMS star rating, 1 to 5 in half stars | Not rated |
| Patient survey ratingCMS star rating from its survey of the agency’s patients, 1 to 5 | Not rated |
How does it compare nearby?
- CMS gives this agency no quality of patient care rating to compare.
CMS, Home Health ZIP Codes and Home Health Care Agencies. Released Oct 21, 2026. Updated quarterly.
| Place | Quality rating |
|---|---|
| Unison Home Care Services This home health agency | Not given |
| All Pointe Homecare, LLC | Not given |
| Trinity Health of New England at Home | 4 |
| Hartford Healthcare at Home | 3.5 |
| Uconn Health Community Network Home Health, Inc. | 3.5 |
| Amedisys Home Health | 4 |
| Yale New Haven Health - Health at Home | 3.5 |
| Masonicare Home Health & Hospice, Inc. | 2.5 |
| Centerwell Home Health | 4.5 |
| Elara Caring | 5 |
| Franciscan Home Care and Hospice Care | 2.5 |
| Pathwell Home Health | 4.5 |
What the record doesn’t say
- CMS doesn’t publish fines or other penalties for home health agencies, so none are shown.
- Only complaints that led to a citation appear; complaints that didn’t aren’t published.
- QCOR says some of its home health reports are accurate or available only through May 19, 2021, because of a systems migration.
- Many home health agencies are inspected by a private accrediting organisation instead of the state, and QCOR’s home health file doesn’t appear to include those inspections: no inspection on record here doesn’t mean none took place.
Sources
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Home Health Care Agencies (6jpm-sxkc).
Released Oct 21, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Home Health Patient Survey (ccn4-8vby).
Released Oct 21, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, QCOR home health inspection reports (HHA_2567s_2018_to_2026YTD.xlsx).
Released Oct 20, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Home Health Agency All Owners (fc009b2d-7846-44b1-b4a1-692f0c143879).
Released Sep 29, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Home Health Agency Enrollments (15f64ab4-3172-4a27-b589-ebd67a6d28aa).
Released Sep 29, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Home Health ZIP Codes (m5eg-upu5).
Released Oct 21, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
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