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NEWS RELEASE
March 16, 2010
For Further Information, Contact:
Michael Wicks, Director of Patient Services
Lewis County Public Health Agency
7785 North State Street, Lowville, NY 13367
315-376-5453
Lewis County Public Health, Named to the 2009 HomeCare Elite as a Top Home
Health Care Provider, also Receives a Deficiency Free Survey from New York
State Department of Health
Lowville, New York: The Lewis County Public Health Agency has announced
that the New York State Department of Health (DOH) recently completed a
NYS and Medicare survey which has resulted in a deficiency free survey for
the agency. This comes soon after Lewis County Public Health was also
named to the 2009 HomeCare Elite™, a compilation of the top-performing
home health agencies in the United States. This annual review identifies
the top 25 percent of agencies and further highlights the top 100 and top
500 agencies overall. Winners are ranked by an analysis of performance
measures in quality outcomes, quality improvement, and financial
performance. This is the third year the agency has been named a HomeCare
Elite agency.
“The 2009 HomeCare Elite winners demonstrate a commitment to providing
their patients with the best possible care while performing at the highest
level,” said Nancy Buller, senior director of marketing communications at
OCS HomeCare. "We congratulate Lewis County Public Health on being one of
the top home care agencies in the country."
The Lewis County Public Health Agency’s Director of Patient Services,
Michael Wicks, credits the teamwork, dedication and effort of both field
and office staff for their focus on improvement in patient goals and
concentrating on providing quality patient care with the ability of the
agency to rank as one of the HomeCare Elite. He said, “Everyone in our
home care program has worked together as a team to achieve this
recognition from both New York State and our national benchmarking
vendor.”
“DecisionHealth would like to congratulate the top HomeCare Elite agencies
that achieved excellent clinical and financial outcomes by providing
quality care to their patients,” adds Marci Heydt, executive editor of
DecisionHealth’s Home Health Line.
The 2009 HomeCare Elite is the only performance recognition of its kind in
the home health industry. The 2009 HomeCare Elite is brought to the
industry by OCS HomeCare, the leading provider of homecare information,
and DecisionHealth, publisher of homecare’s most respected independent
newsletter Home Health Line. The data used for this analysis was compiled
from publicly available information. The entire list of the 2009 HomeCare
Elite agencies can be viewed by visiting the OCS Web site at
www.ocshomecare.com.
About Lewis County Public Health
Established in 1918, the Lewis County Public Health Agency is a
multiple service home care provider, meeting the home care needs of Lewis
County residents throughout the county. The mission of Lewis County Public
Health is the promotion of health, the prevention of disease, disability
and injury, and the provision of quality community health services
throughout the life span of Lewis County residents. The agency offers
Preventive Health, Certified Home Health and Hospice services, along with
Children with Special Needs programs and Cancer services programs. For
more information, please visit
www.lewiscountypublichealth.com or call 315-376-5453.
About OCS HomeCare
OCS HomeCare empowers home health and hospice organizations with
results-driven data intelligence, plus the largest and most accurate
homecare database in the industry. Homecare providers, payers,
associations, government agencies, vendors, and consultants all turn to
OCS to elevate decision-making, raise the bar on results, and bring home
positive outcomes. For more information about OCS HomeCare, please visit
www.ocshomecare.com
or call 888.325.3396.
About DecisionHealth®
For more than 30 years, DecisionHealth has served as the industry's
leading source for news, analysis and instructional guidance with cutting
edge information sources such as Part B News, Home Health Line, Medicare
Compliance Alert, Inside the Joint Commission and Specialty Coders Pink
Sheets. Our unique blend of award-winning, on-staff journalists and
unmatched access to health care executives, providers, healthcare
organization managers and their revenue-cycle staffs enables us to provide
solutions, tools and guidance that’s relied on by nearly 100,000 home
health care and specialty physician practice professionals. For more
information, please visit
www.DecisionHealth.com or call 877.602.3835.
To view
past Press Releases, you may select them by date here:
March 16, 2010 : HomeCare Elite
December 14, 2009 : Offering H1N1 and Seasonal Flu Vaccine Clinic
November 24, 2009 : Update Regarding H1N1 Vaccination Clinics in Lewis
County
November 2, 2009 : Update Regarding H1N1 in Lewis County
April 27, 2009 :
Frequently Asked Questions on The Swine Flu
January 11, 2009
: Rabid Raccoon Exposure in Town of Martinsburg
December 5, 2008
: Rabid Skunk Exposure in Town of Leyden
June 26, 2008 :
Rabid Raccoon Exposure in Town of Leyden
June 24, 2008 :
Rabid Bat Exposure in Town of Croghan
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