December 1, 2017 -
Carter
Healthcare Named to the 2017 ABILITY ¦ HomeCare Elite List
OKLAHOMA
CITY, December 1, 2017 — Carter
Healthcare announced today that it has been named to the 2017 HomeCare Elite®,
a recognition of the top-performing home health agencies in the United States.
For 12 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;
and sponsored by DecisionHealth, publisher of Home Health Line and the Complete
Home Health ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Coding Manual.
The following Carter
Healthcare locations made the ABILITY ¦ HomeCare Elite list for 2017:
Top 100 (Top 1% Nationwide)
Top 500 (Top 4% Nationwide)
Del
Rio/Ozona/Uvalde (Texas)
Jupiter,
Fla.
Largo/New
Port Richey (Fla.)
McAlester,
Okla.
Oklahoma
City/Shawnee/Norman/Stillwater/Clinton/Enid (Okla.)
Steubenville/Canton
(Ohio)
Top 25%
Brady/Brownwood
(Texas)
Ft.
Lauderdale, Fla.
Greensburg,
Pa.
Irving/Wichita
Falls/Sherman/Denton/Longview (Texas)
Lawton/Chickasha/Altus
(Okla.)
Melbourne/Orlando
(Fla.)
New
Braunfels/Kerrville/San Antonio/Victoria/Austin/Bastrop/Pearsall (Texas)
Port
St. Lucie/Vero Beach (Fla.)
San
Angelo/Abilene (Texas)
Spring/Conroe/Livingston
(Texas)
Tampa,
Fla.
Tulsa/Bartlesville/Okmulgee/Muskogee/Tahlequah/Vinita/Pryor/Grove
(Okla.)
“The team at Carter
Healthcare has demonstrated an impressive ability to deliver great patient
care,” said Christine Lang, senior director for ABILITY Network. “This is due
to the skill and dedication of their clinical professionals, as well as the
proficiency and efforts of their quality team tracking, measuring and
interpreting the data that supports the delivery of care. Together, they have earned
this recognition as one of the top home care agencies in the country.”
“Every day our team members
are striving to provide the very best care to help people live better lives,”
said Brad Carter, chief operations officer at Carter Healthcare. “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.”
“Congratulations to those
leading agencies that earned a spot on HomeCare Elite,” said Marci Heydt,
senior content manager for Decision Health. “Carter Healthcare and its peers
have worked hard to improve quality outcomes while maintaining solid profit margins,
which is increasingly difficult as home health agencies faced increased
regulatory burdens each year.”
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 9,064 agencies considered, 2,268 are recognized on the 2017
HomeCare Elite winners list overall.
The entire list of 2017
HomeCare Elite agencies can be downloaded by visiting the ABILITY Network
website at abilitynetwork.com/homecare-elite.
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 is a
leading healthcare information technology company helping providers and payers
simplify the administrative and clinical complexities of healthcare through
innovative applications and data analytics. ABILITY is headquartered in
Minneapolis with principal offices in Boston and Tampa. For more information,
visit www.abilitynetwork.com or write to resources@abilitynetwork.com.
For more information about
HomeCare Elite, call 888.572.4009, write to HomeCareElite@abilitynetwork.com or visit www.abilitynetwork.com/homecare-elite.
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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