Orange Visiting Nurse Association Named to Top 100 of the 2016 HomeCare Elite

Orange

Visiting Nurse Association today

announced that it has been named to the Top 100 of the 2016 HomeCare

Elite®,

a recognition of the top-performing home health agencies in the

United States. For more than ten years, HomeCare Elite has annually

identified the top 25 percent of agencies and highlights the top 100

and top 500 agencies overall.

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The

ranking is developed by ABILITY®

Network, a leading information technology company helping providers

and payers simplify the administrative and clinical complexities of

healthcare; and sponsored by DecisionHealth, publisher of: Home

Health Line, The Complete Home Health ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Coding

Manual and

The Home Health Coding Center.

Improving

quality of care and the patient experience continue to underpin a

rapidly evolving healthcare environment,” said Christine

Lang, Senior

Director, Product Management, for ABILITY Network.

“At the same time tracking, measuring and interpreting data that

support these efforts is becoming more complex. The 2016

HomeCare Elite

winners

have demonstrated

the

highest-quality care in their communities, which is a remarkable

achievement. We congratulate

Orange

Visiting Nurse Association on

being one of the top 100

home care agencies in the

country.”

Judy

Gilkes Benson, Administrator,

Orange Visiting Nurse Association,

credits the entire staff’s focus on providing quality care to each

of our patients and the ability to go over and above to meet the

needs of each individual patient with the agency’s ability to

achieve recognition as one of the HomeCare Elite. “It

has been truly a team effort of each member of the staff (clinical as

well as administrative) to carry out the mission of the organization

and provide individualized high quality care to each patient, “

said Ms. Gilkes Benson, Administrator .

“We

are proud to recognize the top 100 HomeCare Elite agencies for

demonstrating a commitment to improving quality patient care at low

costs. The clinical best practices and data tracking skills these

agencies have implemented can position them for future success in

government programs such as value-based purchasing and star ratings,”

said Marci Heydt, Senior Content Manager, DecisionHealth.

Winners

are ranked by an analysis of publicly available performance measures

in quality outcomes, best practice (process measure) implementation,

patient experience (Home Health CAHPS®),

quality improvement and consistency, and financial performance. In

order to be considered, an agency must be Medicare-certified and have

data for at least one outcome in Home Health Compare. Out of 9,406

agencies considered, 2,353 are recognized on the 2016 HomeCare Elite

winners list overall.

The

entire list of 2016 HomeCare Elite agencies can be downloaded by

visiting the ABILITY Network website at

abilitynetwork.com/homecare-elite.