Hillside Home Care

    
FOR RELEASE - February 11, 2008                     
Contact:  Lisa White (920) 887-6633

Hillside Home Care Ranked Among Top 500 of Home Health Providers in the Country for 2007

Hillside Home Care of Beaver Dam Community Hospitals, Inc. has been named to the 2007 HomeCare Elite, a recognition given to the most successful Medicare-certified home health care providers in the United States. This annual review identifies the Top 500 agencies, ranked by an analysis of quality outcomes, quality improvement and financial performance.

The 2007 HomeCare Elite also indicates those providers who are in the Top 25% and Top 100 of providers nationwide. The data used for this analysis was compiled from publicly available information.

“We applaud the success of all the providers named to the 2007 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 Hillside Home Care is dedicated to quality and performance.”

Lisa White, RN, Director of Hillside Home Care, credits staff commitment and a national Home Health quality initiative program with the company’s ability to rank as one of the HomeCare Elite. She said, “Our very experienced and dedicated staff always strives to improve and deliver excellent care. Hillside Home Care uses the national quality improvement program to provide guidelines and resources that evidence has shown to be effective. We are fortunate to have the support of the hospital’s commitment to quality improvement and best practice health care.”

"Making the 2007 HomeCare Elite is commendable in today’s highly competitive home health care industry," said Jonathan Stern, Group Publisher of DecisionHealth. "We congratulate Hillside Home Care on being one of the Top 500 best performing home care agencies in the country."

The 2007 HomeCare Elite is the only performance recognition of its kind in the home health industry. The 2007 HomeCare Elite is brought to the industry by OCS, Inc., the leading provider of healthcare informatics and DecisionHealth, publisher of home care’s most respected independent newsletter …home health line. The entire list of the 2007 HomeCare Elite agencies can be viewed by visiting the OCS web site at www.ocsys.com.

Hillside Home Care provides medical and/or personal care at home, allowing independence and privacy in a comfortable and familiar environment. Services available include skilled care by registered nurses, personal care by home health aides, rehabilitative therapies, IV therapy, and counseling by social workers on managing a variety of conditions and concerns. For information on Hillside Home Care, call 887-4050.

About OCS, Inc.
OCS is the market leader in healthcare information solutions. By collecting, evaluating and interpreting healthcare information, we empower leaders with data-driven insight that helps optimize mission-critical decision making. OCS combines the richness of the nation’s most comprehensive post-acute Data Warehouse with cutting-edge analysis tools, consulting services and custom technology solutions. Our information-based solutions facilitate providers, payers, industry analysts, consultants, Federal and state governments, medical products and pharmaceutical companies with advancing their missions using objective, independent information that is not available from other sources. Learn more at www.ocsys.com or call 888.325.3396.

About DecisionHealth
DecisionHealth™ serves the business and regulatory needs of health care providers and their administrative staffs nationwide, including home health agencies. We offer more than 50 independent newsletters, magazines, books, websites and loose-leaf services, and sponsor many professional seminars, conferences and expos. Among our home health services are Home Health Line, Home Care Outcomes, the Complete Home Health ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Coding Manual, Private Duty Insider, Diagnosis Coding Pro for Home Health and Success in Home Care magazine. Please visit our website at www.homehealthinteractive.com or call 1.877.602.3835.