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January 15th, 2007
Home Health Services Ranked Among Top 25 Percent of Home Health Providers in Country
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PLANO, TX [Jan. 10, 2007] — Home Health Services of Dallas, Inc., today announced that it has been named to the 2006 HomeCare Elite, the 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.
“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 Home Health Services of Dallas is dedicated to quality and performance.”
“It’s an honor for Home Health Services’ industry leadership to be recognized, “Gerry Dutschke, HHS president and CEO, said. “It’s our staff’s dedication and professionalism in caring for our patients that allow us to maintain our excellence. Each HHS employee should feel equally proud of this recognition of our agency.”
"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 Home Health Services of Dallas 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).
About Home Health Services
Home Health Services of Texas, Inc. (www.hhsd.org) is a Medicare-certified, JCAHO-accredited nonprofit home health agency, providing the community with healthcare services in the home since 1974. With offices in Arlington, Dallas, Denton, Fort Worth, Garland, Houston, McKinney and Plano, Home Health Services provided in 2005 more than 35,000 visits to the ill and disabled throughout the communities it serves.
About OCS, Inc.
OCS is a healthcare information company with the nation’s largest and most comprehensive set of measures spanning clinical outcomes, financial performance, resource utilization, patient satisfaction and operational indicators for Home Care, Hospice, and Private Duty programs. The OCS suite of products and services provide healthcare organizations the insight to improve the quality of care for their patients while enhancing the effectiveness of their organization. Serving the needs of healthcare organizations, vendors and consultants, OCS provider clients consistently rank in the top one-third of all healthcare organizations in the country.
About DecisionHealth
DecisionHealth™ serves the business and regulatory needs of health care practitioners, providers and their administrative staff nationwide. Its flagship newsletters – Home Health Line, Part B News, Medicare Compliance Alert and Inside the Joint Commission -- are among the most recognized titles among business-to-business publishers. It offers more than 50 subscription-based independent newsletters, magazines, books, web sites and loose-leaf services that help readers make the best business decisions on issues affecting the business operations of Medicare and private-pay home health agencies; physician offices, including solo, group, specialty and faculty practices; hospitals, including inpatient, outpatient, quality assurance, facility management, MIS and compliance departments; durable medical equipment suppliers; clinical laboratories in physician offices, hospitals and independent settings; and ambulatory surgery centers.
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