OCS and DecisionHealth released their listing of the top 25 percent of the country’s home health agencies today in conjunction with the National Association for Home Care and Hospice’s annual meeting taking place in Las Vegas this week.
The 2011 HomeCare Elite ranks the nation’s home health agencies using an analysis measuring quality of care, process measure implementation and financial performance. OCS, a business division of the National Research Corporation, used publicly available data from Home Health Compare and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Cost Reports to create the list of agencies in its analysis.
OCS’ agency list was made up of 9,724 Medicare-certified home health agencies, an increase of 349 from eligible agencies last year. Of the 2,434 agencies that made it into the top 25 percent of this year’s HomeCare Elite, 1,379 are repeat agencies from 2010. Twenty-two agencies returned to the top 100 spots and 106 returned to the top 500.
“The 2011 class of the HomeCare Elite have been able to provide quality care to patients while achieving positive financial outcomes, which is significant given the regulatory changes and challenges that home health agencies continue to face,” said Marci Heydt, product manager for the post-acute care business group of healthcare news provider, DecisionHealth, in a statement.
Some of the agencies listed in the top 100 include:
• AHC Home Care, Inc., Aurora, Colo.
• Amedisys Home Health, various locations
• Carefirst Home Health Services, Lincolnwood, Ill.
• Deltacare Home Health Service, Irving, Texas
• Gem Home Care, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.
• Gentiva Health Services, various locations
• HCR, Rochester, N.Y.
• Heritage Home Care, Bingham Farms, Mich.
• New Vision Nursing and Home Care, Delphos, Ohio
• Pinnacle Home Health, Holladay, Utah
• Reliance Health Care, Las Vegas
• Stat Home Health, various locations
• Sweetwater Hospital Home Health, Sweetwater, Tenn.
• WakeMed Home Health, Raleigh, N.C.
• Welcome Home Care, North Haven, Conn.
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