For the third consecutive year, Provena Home Care has been recognized as
among the HomeCare Elite, a list of the most successful Medicare-certified home
health care providers in the United States. This annual review identifies the
top 25 percent of agencies, ranked by an analysis of performance measures in
quality outcomes, quality improvement and financial performance. Provena Home
Care's agencies in Elgin, Gurnee, Bourbonnais and Urbana received top 25 percent
recognition.
The 2008 HomeCare Elite is the only performance recognition of its kind in
the home health industry. The 2008 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 entire list of the 2008 HomeCare Elite agencies can be viewed by visiting
the OCS web site at www.ocsys.com/HCE. The data used for
this analysis was compiled from publicly available information.
Margaret Gleason, President and CEO of Provena Home Care, credits talented,
caring and dedicated employees and a team effort toward service excellence with
the company's ability to rank as one of the HomeCare Elite. She said, "I am so
proud of the staff and their accomplishments on our journey to excellence."
"The 2008 HomeCare Elite winners exemplify a commitment to providing
their patients with optimum care while performing at the highest level," said
Nancy Buller, Senior Director of Marketing Communications at OCS, Inc.
"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.
To learn move about Provena Home Care, click
here or call (815) 806-2300. To find out if home care is the answer for
you or a loved one, click
here for an online evaluation.
See Provena's dedication to quality and service excellence at www.provena.org/videos.
About OCS, Inc.
OCS is the market leader in
healthcare information solutions. By collecting, evaluating and interpreting
healthcare information, we empower 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. Our
information-based solutions facilitate providers, payors, industry analysts,
consultants, Federal and state governments, medical products and pharmaceutical
companies with advancing their missions using objective, independent information
that is not available from other sources. Learn more at www.ocsys.com or call 888.325.3396.
About DecisionHealth
DecisionHealth® serves the clinical,
business and regulatory needs of health care practitioners, providers and their
administrative staff nationwide, including home health agencies. For more than
20 years, DecisionHealth has served as the industry's leading source for news,
analysis and instructional guidance with brand names such as Home Health Line,
Home Care Outcomes, the Complete Home Health ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Coding Manual,
Private Duty Insider and Diagnosis Coding Pro for Home Health. Our unique blend
of award-winning information specialists, in-house journalists and unmatched
access to health care executives, providers and their staffs results in news,
analysis and solutions that have captured the attention of nearly 100,000
healthcare readers. For more information, please visit www.DecisionHealth.com or call
877.602.3835.
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