Professional Home Nursing has been recognized as one of the Top 500 agencies out of 8,900 home health providers in the United States. In 2006 HomeCare Elite developed an inaugural compilation of the most successful home care providers in the country.
This ground-breaking review names the Medicare-certified agencies whose performance measures in quality, improvement and financial performance are among the top 25 percent of providers nationwide. Additionally, the 2006 HomeCare Elite indicates that Professional Home Nursing was the only Top 500 agency north of Bangor and one of only four agencies in the state of Maine to achieve this level of performance.
“We attribute the agency’s achievement in quality to the commitment and high standards of our professional staff,” stated Katherine Anderson, co-owner of Professional Home Nursing.
Darlene Foster, co-owner, added, “Performance outcomes are now publicly available to assist individuals in making a quality-based decision when choosing a homecare provider.” Foster continued, “A link to Medicare’s Home Health Compare can be found on our Web site at www.professionalhomenursing.com.”
“We applaud the success of all the providers named to the 2006 HomeCare Elite,” said Bill Bassett, senior director of market strategy at OCS, Inc. “Being noted as one of the top performers in the nation in this very competitive environment shows that Professional Home Nursing is dedicated to quality and performance.”
“As performance improvement, both clinical and financial, continues to be a critical metric for home care agencies, it’s wonderful that we now have an award that recognizes our industry’s highest achievers,” said Tonya Nevin, executive publisher of DecisionHealth. “We congratulate Professional Home Nursing on being one of the top 25 percent best performing home care agencies in the country.”
The 2006 HomeCare Elite is the first performance recognition of its kind in the home health industry. The 2006 HomeCare Elite is brought to the industry by OCS, Inc., the leading provider of healthcare informatics and DecisionHealth, publisher of home care’s most respected independent newsletter Home Health Line. The data used for this analysis was complied from publicly available information. The entire list of the 2006 HomeCare Elite agencies can be viewed by visiting the OCS Web site, www.ocsys.com.
