Accredited Home Health Services Named HomeCare Elite

Woodland Hills, CA, December 22, 2006 --(PR.com)-- Accredited Home Health Services today announced that it has been named to the 2006 HomeCare Elite, the inaugural compilation of the most successful home care providers in the country. This ground-breaking review names the Medicare-certified agencies whose performance measures in quality, improvement and financial performance are amont the top 25% of providers nationwide.

“We applaud the success of all providers named to the 2006 HomeCare Elite,” said Bill Bassett, Senior Director of Market Strategy at OCS, Inc. “Being noted as one of the top performers in the nation in this very competitive environment shows that Accredited Home Health Services is dedicated to quality and performance.”

Accredited Home Health Services, President Barry Berger, credits strong management and superior clinicians with the company’s ability to rank as one of the HomeCare Elite. He said, “I’m proud of our organization’s accomplishment because it demonstrates our commitment to exceptional patient care.”

“As performance improvement, both clinical and financial, continues to be a critical metric for home care agencies, it’s wonderful that we now have an award that recognizes our industry’s highest achievers,” said Tonya Nevin, Executive Publisher of DecisionHealth. “We congratulate Accredited Home Health Services on being one of the top 25% best performing home care agencies in the country.”

The 2006 HomeCare Elite is the first performance recognition of its kind in the home health industry. The 2006 HomeCare Elite is brought by OCS, Inc., the leading provider of healthcare informatics and DecisionHealth, publisher of home care’s most respected independent newsletter Home Health Line. The data used for this analysis was complied from publicly available information. The entire list of 2006 HomeCare Elite agencies can be viewed by visiting the OCS web site.

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