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Home health in Cook County

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154 home health agencies in Cook County, Illinois.

From CMS’s quarterly release of Oct 21, 2026. With Illinois’s own list of the home health agencies it licenses that Medicare doesn’t certify. The record lists 804 home health agencies in Illinois.

Also listed

IDPH’s Home Health Agency Directory holds 595 licensed home health agencies. 526 of them are in CMS’s files (by Medicare number, name or address) and shown from CMS’s records; 54 are listed here as licensed by Illinois and not Medicare-certified. Not listed: 9 Illinois offices of agencies Medicare certifies in neighbouring states, 1 sharing its licensee or its building with an agency CMS lists elsewhere in Illinois, so it may be part of it, 2 that CMS’s files can’t settle: offices of neighbouring states’ health systems and 3 new on the list since it was last checked against CMS’s files (2026-10-20), not listed until it is. IDPH’s Home Nursing Agency Directory holds 258 licensed home nursing agencies. 39 of them are in CMS’s files as home health agencies (by name or address) and shown from CMS’s records; 219 are listed here as home nursing agencies licensed by Illinois, a kind Medicare doesn’t certify.

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What the words on these cards mean7
Star ratings
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.
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.
Condition-level deficiency
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.
Immediate jeopardy
CMS’s most serious finding: the place’s failure to meet a rule caused, or was likely to cause, serious injury, harm, impairment or death to someone in its care. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 489.3.
None on record
The source lists nothing of this kind for the place, over the years its file covers. That is what the record holds, not proof that nothing ever happened. Source: How this site reads each source.
Not published
The source has no such field for this place. It isn’t a zero, and it isn’t a clean record. Source: How this site reads each source.

The list

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    Source:

    CMS, Home Health Care Agencies. Released Oct 21, 2026. Updated quarterly.

    Illinois Department of Public Health, Office of Health Care Regulation, IDPH Home Health Agency Directory and IDPH Home Nursing Agency Directory. Released Apr 28, 2026. Updated weekly.

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    Every line is a fact its source published, in that source’s own words. On a line whose figures can be ordered, the one that leads is marked; that is not a rating, and no line is weighed against another. “Not published” means that state’s file has no such field, which is not the same as a zero.

    How to read a record

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    An example record, made up for this guide

    An example nursing home

    Made up for this guide: no real place is shown

    Not fully inspected in over two years (CMS flag)

    11 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

    The state average is 14.3.

    Source:

    CMS, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

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