December 17, 2018 -
OKLAHOMA
CITY, December 17, 2018 — Carter
Healthcare announced today that it has been named to the 2018 HomeCare Elite, a
recognition of the top-performing home health agencies in the United States.
For 13 years, HomeCare Elite has annually identified the top 25 percent of Medicare-certified
agencies and highlighted the top 100 and top 500 agencies overall.
The ranking is developed by
ABILITY® Network, a leading information technology company helping providers
and payers simplify the administrative and clinical complexities of healthcare.
It is sponsored by DecisionHealth, publisher of Home Health Line and the Complete
Home Health ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Coding Manual.
“I would like to congratulate
the team at Carter Healthcare and thank them for their commitment to providing
consistently high-quality care,” said Christine Lang, senior director for
ABILITY Network. “During a time of increasing demands on home health
professionals’ time and attention, these caregivers and leaders have
demonstrated that they have prioritized their patients and created a solid
foundation for serving their communities and partnering with other healthcare
providers.”
Brad Carter, chief
operations officer at Carter Healthcare, credits the dedication of the clinical
staff with the agency’s ability to achieve recognition as one of the HomeCare
Elite. “Every day our team members are striving to provide the very best care
to help people live better lives. Achieving recognition as one of the HomeCare
Elite is confirmation of just how successful our team has been at providing the
highest quality care for our patients,” said Carter.
The following Carter
Healthcare locations made the ABILITY ¦ HomeCare Elite list for 2018:
Top 100 (Top 1% Nationwide)
·
Ardmore/Durant
(Okla.) – This is the fifth time the Ardmore provider has been ranked among the
top one percent in the nation.
Top 500 (Top 4% Nationwide)
·
Austin/Kerrville/Pearsall/San
Antonio/Victoria (Texas)
·
Houston/Beaumont/Livingston
(Texas)
·
Largo/New
Port Richey (Fla.)
·
San
Angelo/Abilene (Texas)
·
Steubenville,
Ohio
Top 25%
·
Boca
Raton, Fla.
·
Bonner
Springs (now Topeka), Kan.
·
Brady/Brownwood
(Texas)
·
Del
Rio/Ozona (Texas)
·
Greensburg,
Pa.
·
Lawton/Altus/Chickasha
(Okla.)
·
McAlester,
Okla.
·
Melbourne/Orlando
(Fla.)
·
Oklahoma
City/Clinton/Enid/Norman/Shawnee/Stillwater (Okla.)
·
Tampa,
Fla.
·
Tulsa/Bartlesville/Grove/Muskogee/Okmulgee/Tahlequah/Vinita
(Okla.)
“Congratulations to Carter
Healthcare from all of the staff at DecisionHealth,” said Marci Geipe, product
manager for Decision Health. “Your leadership and staff have placed a premium
on the patient care your agency provides as showcased by your quality outcome
scores. The entire community benefits from the compassion that your staff shows
toward your patients, leading to cost savings for the entire healthcare system.”
HomeCare Elite agencies are
determined by an analysis of performance measures in quality outcomes, best
practices implementation, patient experience (HHCAHPS), quality improvement and
consistency, and financial health. In order to be considered, an agency must be
Medicare-certified and have data for at least three outcomes in Home Health
Compare. Out of 8,898 agencies considered, 2,223 are recognized on the 2018
HomeCare Elite winners list overall.
The entire list of 2018
HomeCare Elite agencies can be downloaded by visiting the ABILITY Network
website at abilitynetwork.com/hce.
About
Carter Healthcare
Since 1989, Oklahoma
City-based Carter Healthcare has been a leading healthcare provider focused on
delivering outcomes-based results and the highest quality of home health and
hospice care, at-home medical equipment, and pharmacy services to thousands of
clients in the comfort of their homes. With locations in Florida, Kansas,
Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Texas, Carter Healthcare continues to
help people live better lives. For more information, visit www.carterhealthcare.com.
About
ABILITY Network
ABILITY
Network, an Inovalon Company (NASDAQ:INOV), is a leading cloud-based,
SaaS information technology company helping providers and payers simplify the
administrative and clinical complexities of healthcare through innovative
applications and data analytics. The combination of myABILITY and the Inovalon
ONE™ Platform creates a vertically integrated cloud-based platform empowering
the achievement of real-time value-based care from payers, manufacturers and
diagnostics, all the way to the patient’s point of care. For more information,
visit www.abilitynetwork.com or write
to [email protected].
For more information about HomeCare Elite, call 888.572.4009, write to [email protected]
or visit www.abilitynetwork.com/hce.
About
H3.Group
In March 2017, Simplify
Compliance LLC announced the merger of DecisionHealth, LLC with existing brands
HCPro and HealthLeaders Media, to form the H3.Group! H3.Group, with its three
pillars of thought leadership, expertise, and application, provides critical
insight, analysis, tools and training to healthcare organizations nationwide empowering
today’s healthcare professionals with solution-focused information and
intelligence to guide their organizations’ efforts in achieving compliance,
financial performance, leadership, and organizational excellence. The creation
of the H3.Group comes as healthcare faces an unprecedented period of transition
that brings uncertainty and opportunity. As policies and regulations are
revisited and payment models changed, the need for clarity, actionable guidance
and expert training for all provider settings and functional areas will
increase dramatically.
About
DecisionHealth
For over 30 years,
DecisionHealth, an H3.Group brand, has served as the industry’s leading source
for news, analysis and instructional guidance with brand names such as Home
Health Line and Part B News. Our unique blend of award-winning on-staff
journalists and unmatched access to health care executives, providers and their
administrative staffs results in business management advice and operationally
focused editorial that has captured the attention of nearly 100,000 home health
care professionals and specialty physician practices.
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