Ecumen Home Care and Hospice - Litchfield

When those deficiencies happened

1 visit on record, nothing cited. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

• Medicare-certified home health agency since May 21, 1986.
• Ownership: non-profit.
• No condition-level: what this means deficiency on record in the last three years.

• 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.

• Offers nursing care, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology and home health aide services.
• Doesn’t offer medical social services.
• CMS doesn’t publish staffing levels for home health agencies.

• Ecumen owns 100% directly since Sep 1, 1986.
• Ecumen runs it.
• 44 owners or officers are people: James Stephen Mcalpine (corporate officer, 100%); Tina Marie Palmer (corporate officer, 100%); Cyrus Mun Batheja (corporate officer, 100%); Tami Jo Haley (corporate officer, 100%); Douglas Clyde Harrison (corporate officer, 100%); Emily Ann Laxdal Sommer (corporate officer, 100%); Marcia Kull (corporate director); Marcia Kull (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Jan Marie Conlin (corporate director); Jan Marie Conlin (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Peter Burton Schuna (corporate director); Peter Burton Schuna (runs it (operational or managerial control)); James Stephen Mcalpine (managing employee (on the payroll)); James Stephen Mcalpine (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Tina Marie Palmer (managing employee (on the payroll)); Tina Marie Palmer (runs it (operational or managerial control)); John Petraborg (corporate director, 0%); John Petraborg (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Jeanette Lynne Augustson (corporate director); Jeanette Lynne Augustson (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Brent D Iserman (corporate director); Brent D Iserman (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Diane Haugen Pederson (corporate director); Diane Haugen Pederson (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Margene Toraason Reno (corporate director); Margene Toraason Reno (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Susan R Bergstrom (corporate director); Susan R Bergstrom (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Cyrus Mun Batheja (managing employee (on the payroll)); Cyrus Mun Batheja (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Tami Jo Haley (managing employee (on the payroll)); Tami Jo Haley (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Joy Marie Plamann (corporate director); Joy Marie Plamann (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Douglas Clyde Harrison (managing employee (on the payroll)); Douglas Clyde Harrison (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Nils Warren Snyder (corporate director); Nils Warren Snyder (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Sharlene Miata Getaweh (corporate director); Sharlene Miata Getaweh (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Mary W Frey (corporate director); Mary W Frey (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Emily Ann Laxdal Sommer (managing employee (on the payroll)); Emily Ann Laxdal Sommer (runs it (operational or managerial control)).
• No private-equity firm among the owners CMS lists.
• No real-estate investment trust among the owners CMS lists.

• CMS rates its quality of patient care 4 of 5.
• Patients rate it 3 of 5 in CMS’s patient survey (183 surveys completed): 81% rated it 9 or 10 out of 10, and 78% would definitely recommend it.
• CMS compares it with the national rate: discharged to the community, better; potentially preventable hospital stays, the same; potentially preventable readmissions after discharge, the same.

• Of the 5 agencies CMS’s data show serving patients in ZIP code 55355, where this agency’s office is, 5 have a quality of patient care rating; the middle one is 3.5 of 5, and this one is rated 4 of 5.

• 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.

• 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).

• 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).

• 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).

• 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).

• 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).

• 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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