HomeCare Elite
posted on October 30, 2009
HCR Named as Top 500 Home Health Care Provider of 2009 HomeCare Elite
Rochester, NY, October 21, 2009 — Home Care of Rochester (HCR) today announced that it has been named to the 2009 HomeCare Elite™, a compilation of the top performing home health agencies in the United States. This annual review identifies the Top 25 percent of agencies and further highlights the top 100 and top 500 agencies overall. Winners are ranked by an analysis of performance measures in quality outcomes, quality improvement and financial performance.
“The 2009 HomeCare Elite winners exemplify a commitment to providing their patients with the best possible care while performing at the highest level,” said Nancy Buller, senior director of marketing communications at OCS HomeCare. “We congratulate HCR on being one of the Top 500 home care agencies in the country.”
HCR CEO Louise Woerner credits the company’s culture of quality and attention to detail for its ability to rank as one of the HomeCare Elite. “This is our third consecutive year in the HomeCare Elite Top 500. As an employee-owned company, everyone understands the importance of focusing on quality patient outcomes. For us, patient care is more than just a phrase,” said Ms. Woerner.
“DecisionHealth would like to congratulate the top HomeCare Elite agencies that achieved excellent clinical and financial outcomes by providing quality care to their patients,” adds Marci Heydt, executive editor of DecisionHealth’s Home Health Line.
The 2009 HomeCare Elite is the only performance recognition of its kind in the home health industry. The 2009 HomeCare Elite is brought to the industry by OCS, Inc., the leading provider of homecare information, and DecisionHealth, publisher of home care’s most respected independent newsletter Home Health Line. The data used for this analysis was compiled from publicly available information. The entire list of the 2009 HomeCare Elite agencies can be viewed by visiting the OCS Web site at http://www.ocshomecare.com.
About Home Care of Rochester | HCR
Home Care of Rochester (HCR) is a certified and licensed, employee-owned home health care agency providing in-home nursing; physical, occupational, and speech therapy; nutritional guidance; and home health aide services to help with activities for daily living for the greater Rochester community for more than 30 years. In collaboration with the medical, insurance, government, educational, and philanthropic communities, HCR strives to improve patient outcomes and lower health care costs by assisting in health care research and care delivery issues. Among its partners are the United States Public Health Service, the Center for Disease Control, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health. HCR employs over 760 people in a variety of skilled and professional disciplines. In addition to its HomeCare Elite Top 500 status, HCR is a Top Performing Agency in New York, and an IPRO Quality Award Winner for the past two years.
About OCS HomeCare
OCS HomeCare empowers home health and hospice organizations with results-driven data intelligence, plus the largest and most accurate homecare database in the industry. Homecare providers, payers, associations, government agencies, vendors, and consultants all turn to OCS to elevate decision-making, raise the bar on results, and bring home positive outcomes. For more information about OCS HomeCare, please visit http://www.ocshomecare.com or call 888.325.3396.
About DecisionHealth®
For more than 30 years, DecisionHealth has served as the industry’s leading source for news, analysis and instructional guidance with cutting edge information sources such as Part B News, Home Health Line, Medicare Compliance Alert, Inside the Joint Commission and Specialty Coders Pink Sheets. Our unique blend of award-winning on-staff journalists and unmatched access to health care executives, providers, healthcare organization managers and their revenue-cycle staffs enables us to provide solutions, tools and guidance that’s relied on by nearly 100,000 home health care and specialty physician practice professionals. For more information, please visit http://www.DecisionHealth.com or call 877.602.3835.
