Release Date: 12/04/2012

VNA of Care New England ranks in the top 25% of home health care agencies from across the country.

VNA of Care New England recently announced that is has been named a Top Agency of the 2012 HomeCare Elite, a compilation of the top-performing home health agencies in the United States. HomeCare Elite identifies the top 25 percent of Medicare-certified agencies by an analysis of publicly available performance measures in quality outcomes, process measure implementation, patient experience, quality improvement and financial performance.

Nancy Roberts, President and CEO of VNA of Care New England said, "We are honored to have received this recognition. It is especially gratifying because it represents that we are consistently providing safe, effective, quality care to the patients we are privileged to care for annually."

The HomeCare Elite is the only performance recognition of its kind in the home health profession. The 2012 HomeCare Elite is co-sponsored by National Research Corporation (also known as OCS HomeCare), the leading provider of cross-continuum healthcare metrics and analytics, and DecisionHealth, the publisher of the industry's most respected independent newsletter Home Health Line.