Athens Regional Home Health has been named to the Top 500 of the 2015 HomeCare Elite, recognizing it as one of the top-performing home health agencies in the United States.
 
Now in its tenth year, the HomeCare Elite identifies the top 25 percent of agencies and highlights the top 100 and top 500 agencies overall.  Winners are ranked by an analysis of publicly available performance measures in quality outcomes, best practices 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.
 
The award is sponsored by OCS HomeCare by National Research Corporation, the leading provider of home health and hospice metrics and analytics, and Decision-Health, publisher of the most respected independent publications in home care profession, Home Health Line.
 
“The 2015 HomeCare Elite winners deserve credit for demonstrating high-quality care in their communities. As quality care initiatives become top-mind for healthcare-providers, we recognize this as a remarkable achievement and are pleased to make this our 10th year of acknowledgement for top performing Home Health organizations.” Said Christine Lang, VP of Product Development for OCS HomeCare.
 
Pamela Hall, executive director at Athens Regional Home Health, credits individualized attention to the patient’s goals for outcomes and satisfaction followed up by excellent care coordination between staff with the agency’s ability to achieve recognition as one of the HomeCare Elite.
 
“Each day, staff implements our mission and values to make a real and lasting difference in the lives of our patients,” said Pamela Hall.