CARIBOU — Professional Home Nursing announced on Nov. 6 that it has been named to the 2007 HomeCare Elite, a compilation of the most successful Medicare-certified home health care providers in the United States. This annual review identifies the Top 500 of agencies, ranked by an analysis of performance measures in quality outcomes, quality improvement and financial performance.
Professional Home Nursing is the only agency in Aroostook County and one of only two home health agencies from Maine to make the top 500 HomeCare Elite list. The data used for this analysis was compiled from publicly available information.
“We applaud the success of all the providers named to the 2007 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.”
Professinal Home Nursing’s co-owner and COO, Darlene Foster credits leadership’s commitment and staff’s dedication to quality patient care with the company’s ability to rank as one of the HomeCare Elite.
“Making the 2007 HomeCare Elite is commendable in today’s highly competitive home health care industry,” said Jonathan Stern, Group Publisher of DecisionHealth. “We congratulate Professional Home Nursing on being one of the Top 500 best performing home care agencies in the country.”
The 2007 HomeCare Elite is the only performance recognition of its kind in the home health industry. The 2007 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.
In addition to the Top 500 of providers, the 2007 Homecare Elite also indicates those providers ranked in the top 25 percent of providers nationwide. The data used for this analysis was compiled from publicly available information. The entire list of the 2007 HomeCare Elite agencies can be viewed by visiting the OCS web site at www.ocsys.com.
Professional Home Nursing (PHN) specializes in providing skilled home health care to qualifying individuals in Aroostook County. PHN was founded in 1995 by two local nurses, Katherine Anderson and Darlene Foster. The agency is fully staffed with nurses and therapists and prides itself on prompt intervention, quality of care and client satisfaction. PHN achieved the HomeCare Elite status in 2006 as well. For more information about Professional Home Nursing visit the Web site at www.professionalhomenursing.com.
OCS is the market leader in healthcare information solutions. By collecting, evaluating and interpreting healthcare information, OCS empowers leaders with data-driven insight that helps optimize mission-critical decision making. OCS combines the richness of the nation’s most comprehensive post-acute data warehouse with cutting-edge analysis tools, consulting services and custom technology solutions. OCS’s information-based solutions facilitate providers, payers, industry analysts, consultants, federal and state governments, medical products and pharmaceutical companies with ways to advance their missions using objective, independent information that is not available from other sources. For more information visit the Web site at www.ocsys.com or call 888-325-3396.
DecisionHealth serves the business and regulatory needs of health care providers and their administrative staffs nationwide, including home health agencies. DecisionHealth offers more than 50 independent newsletters, magazines, books, websites and loose-leaf services, and sponsors many professional seminars, conferences and expos.
Among DecisionHealth’s home health services are Home Health Line, Home Care Outcomes, the Complete Home Health ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Coding Manual, Private Duty Insider, Diagnosis Coding Pro for Home Health and Success in Home Care magazine.
For more information visit the Web site at www.homehealthinteractive.com or call 1-877-602-3835.
Contributed photo
GREATER CARIBOU area seniors participating in the 2007 Northern Maine Community College Nursing Department well elder program attending a recent afternoon appreciation tea at the College were, front row, from left: Jo Ann and Gary Kelley of Caribou, and Beatrice Beahm and Emma Cote of Limestone. Thanking their well elders were NMCC nursing students, back row, from left: Charles Zappone of Caribou and Kate Dunleavy of Limestone. For more on the well elder program, please turn to Page 5A.
