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.