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Addison County Home Health & Hospice Named Top Agency


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Tuesday December 11, 2012

  Addison County Home Health & Hospice has been named a Top Agency of the 2012 HomeCare Elite, a compilation of the top-performing home health agencies in the United States.

   The ACHHH Management Team credits staff and their commitment to patient care with the agency’s ability to achieve recognition as one of the HomeCare Elite: “In today’s healthcare climate, we are especially pleased to have been chosen as one of the HomeCare Elite Top Agencies for 2012,” explains Larry Goetschius, executive director of Addison County Home Health & Hospice. “We come from a long tradition of putting patients first and that commitment is reflected in our outcomes and patient satisfaction. This award is a direct result of the hard work and determination of every person here at ACHHH.”

“As an organization we believe we have the greatest home health staff. It is wonderful to receive this national recognition as reinforcement,” say Michele Hadeka, Quality Assurance Coordinator.  “This agency believes that each patient should receive the highest quality care we can provide, that means hiring the brightest, dedicated staff we can and then providing them with the orientation and in-service programs they need to do their job well. I am incredibly proud of our team of clinicians.”

    HomeCare Elite identifies the top 25 percent of Medicare-certified agencies. Winners are ranked by an analysis of publicly available performance measures in quality outcomes, process measure implementation, patient experience (Home Health CAHPS), quality improvement, and financial performance.

    “The 2012 HomeCare Elite winners demonstrate a commitment to providing patient-centered care and serving as leaders in the home health community. Their success offers data-driven proof of being well-managed and high quality care providers to hospitals, managed care organizations, ACOs, and other potential referral partners across the healthcare continuum,” said Susan L. Henricks, President and COO of National Research Corporation, the parent company of OCS HomeCare. “Again, this year, we updated our methodology to reflect the rapidly evolving quality-focused healthcare landscape and national value-based purchasing trends. We congratulate Addison County Home Health & Hospice on being recognized as a top home care agency.”

    “HomeCare Elite recognition continues to gain importance given the increased regulatory mandates and the threat of shrinking reimbursement revenue. Home health agencies that have earned recognition among the HomeCare Elite demonstrated that they not only can adapt to an evolving marketplace but continue to excel in clinical, patient experience, quality improvement, and financial outcomes,” said Marci Heydt, Product Manager for the post-acute care business group of DecisionHealth.

    The HomeCare Elite is the only performance recognition of its kind in the home health profession. The 2012 HomeCare Elite is co-sponsored by National Research Corporation (also known as OCS HomeCare), the leading provider of cross-continuum healthcare metrics and analytics, and DecisionHealth, the publisher of the industry’s most respected independent newsletter Home Health Line. The data used for this analysis were compiled from publicly available information. The entire list of 2012 HomeCare Elite agencies can be downloaded by visiting the National Research Corporation website at www.nationalresearch.com.

About Addison County Home Health and Hospice
Addison County Home Health and Hospice has been providing comprehensive home health care and hospice services in Addison County since 1968. The nonprofit agency employs more than 180 full and part-time employees and serves people of all ages within Addison County. For more information, please visit www.achhh.org, or call (802) 388-7259.

About National Research Corporation and OCS HomeCare
OCS HomeCare is a product of National Research Corporation. For more than 30 years, National Corporation (NASDAQ: NRCI) has been at the forefront of patient-centered care. Today the company’s focus on empowering customer-centric healthcare across the continuum extends patient-centered care to incorporate families, communities, employees, senior housing residents, and other stakeholders.
Currently recognized by Modern Healthcare as the largest patient satisfaction measurement firm in the U.S., National Research is dedicated to representing the true voice of patients and other healthcare stakeholders. This integration of cross-continuum metrics and analytics uncovers insights for effective performance improvement, quality measurement, care transitions, and many other factors that impact population health management.

For more information, call 800-388-4264, write to [email protected], or visit www.nationalresearch.com.


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