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Home Nursing Agency Named Agency of the Month, Receives National Recognition for Home Health Outcomes

 05/12/2011

Home Nursing Agency was selected as ‘Agency of the Month’ by the Home Health Quality Improvement (HHQI) National Campaign, an effort spearheaded by The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. To be considered for this designation, an agency must be around the 90th percentile in the acute care hospitalization [ACH] rate and/or Oral Medication rate categories. HHQI is a national initiative across the home health care setting to reduce both avoidable hospitalizations and improve the management of oral medications.

“Evidence-based practice standards are incorporated into our clinician and patient education tools, and serve as our foundation to achieve excellence in clinical outcomes,” said Janie Christner BSN, RN, the agency’s director of home health. We commend the efforts of our patient care supervisors and healthcare professionals involved with our quality, education and telehealth initiatives to accomplish our goals of reducing acute care hospitalization and improving medication management among our patients,” added Janie. For more information and to view the Agency’s designation online, please visit www.homehealthquality.org