Bethel Visiting Nurse Association Named Top Agency in 2015 Home Care Elite

The Bethel Visiting Nurse Association was recently named as a Top Agency of the 2015 Home Care Elite.

The HomeCare Elite identifies the top 25 percent of Medicare-certified 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 practice implementation, patient experience, quality improvement and consistency, and financial performance, according to a release.

In order to be considered, the 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 award is sponsored by OCS HomeCare by National Research Corporation, the leading provider of home health and hospice metrics and analytics, and DecisionHealth, publisher of the most respected independent publication in the 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-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,” said Christine Lang, VP of Product Development for OCS HomeCare. ““

We congratulate Bethel Visiting Nurse Association on being one of the top home care agencies in the country.”

Bethel Visiting Nurse Association’s, Judy Malin, Executive Director credits their talented and dedicated staff and great community support with the agency’s ability to achieve recognition as one of the HomeCare Elite.

“Bethel Visiting Nurse Association appreciates the recognition from Home Care Elite. The award is a visible acknowledgement of the work that our staff does on a daily basis. I am very proud of the recognition and always, proud of our staff and our community,” said Judy Malin, Executive Director.