Beebe Services Named as a Top Agency
Beebe Healthcare Home Care Services has been named a Top Agency of the 2015 HomeCare Elite™, a recognition of the top-performing home health agencies in the United States. Now in its 10th year, the HomeCare Elite identifies the top 25 percent of Medicare-certified agencies and highlights the top 100 and top 500 agencies overall.
“The 2015 HomeCare Elite winners deserve credit for demonstrating high-quality care in their communities,” said Christine Lang, Vice President of Product Development for OCS HomeCare. National Research Corporation’s OCS HomeCare and DecisionHealth sponsor the annual award.
“As quality care initiatives become top-of-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. We congratulate Beebe Home Care Services on being one of the top home care agencies in the country.”
Dana Warrington, RN, Director of Beebe Home Care Services, credits her staff’s commitment to excellence and its compassion for patients and their families for the agency’s ability to achieve recognition as one of the HomeCare Elite.
“We are honored to have received this award for the fourth consecutive year,” Mrs. Warrington said.
Beebe Home Care Services, based in Millsboro, provides a comprehensive home care program to patients throughout southern Delaware. Its staff of 61 team members includes nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists, occupational therapists, social workers and other professionals. Beebe Home Care Services also offers an individualized remote monitoring program to manage patients with chronic illnesses that include heart failure, COPD, and diabetes. Beebe Home Care Services is part of Beebe Healthcare, a not-for-profit community healthcare system. For more information, call (302) 934-5830.
“Happy 10th anniversary to the winners of the HomeCare Elite,” said Marci Heydt, Senior Content Manager, DecisionHealth. “As CMS ramps up its nationwide initiatives to reward home care agencies for the quality of care they provide, this is yet another way to acknowledge those agencies that have demonstrated their commitment to improving patient care at lower costs. The winners of the HomeCare Elite Award are proving that a heightened focus on clinical outcomes, patient experience, and financial management leads to success.”
Top agencies are ranked by an analysis of publicly available performance measures in quality outcomes, best practice implementation, patient experience (Home Health CAHPS®), quality improvement and consistency, and financial performance. To be considered, an agency must be Medicare-certified and have data for at least one outcome in Home Health Compare. Out of 9,718 agencies considered, 2,431 are elite.
The list of 2015 HomeCare Elite agencies can be downloaded by visiting the National Research Corporation website at https://www.ocshomecare.com/HomeCare-Elite.aspx.
About National Research Corporation
For more than 30 years, National Research Corporation (NASDAQ: NRCIA and NRCIB) has been at the forefront of patient-centered care. Today, the company’s focus on empowering customer-centric healthcare across the continuum extends patient-centered care to incorporate families, communities, employees, senior housing residents, and other stakeholders.
National Research is dedicated to representing the true voice of patients and other healthcare stakeholders. This integration of cross-continuum metrics and analytics uncovers insights for effective performance improvement, quality measurement, care transitions, and many other factors that impact population health management.
About DecisionHealth®
For over 25 years, DecisionHealth has served as the home care industry’s leading source for analysis and tools to improve revenue cycle performance, profitability and regulatory compliance. Agencies nationwide turn to DecisionHealth for education and training, coding and billing solutions, and ongoing expert guidance through its family of online products, print solutions, and live training events. DecisionHealth also certifies home health agency professionals in ICD-10 coding and OASIS-C1 through its Board of Medical Specialty Coding & Compliance, and provides custom consulting services to agency leaders through its DecisionHealth Professional Services unit. For product information, call 1-855-CALL-DH1 or visit DecisionHealth.
About Beebe Healthcare
Beebe Healthcare is a not-for-profit community healthcare system with a charitable mission to encourage healthy living, prevent illness, and restore optimal health for the people residing, working, or visiting in the communities we serve. It offers services throughout Southern Delaware for residents and visitors, including a 210-licensed-bed hospital, a cancer center, and outpatient facilities providing walk-in care, lab, imaging, physical rehabilitation and home care services. For more information, please visit us online at Beebe Healthcare.