HealthInsight Quality Award

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Utah Home Health and Hospice is proud to announce that it is the recipient of the 2010 HealthInsight Home Health Quality Award!


HealthInsight Quality Award 2005

Criteria for 2010 Home Health HealthInsight Quality Awards

1. Agency ranks at or above the 90th percentile nationally using current ranking methods ( nine available measures; giving equal weight to “percentage of patients who had to be admitted to the hospital” and the average percentage of the eight other measures included in the analysis) based on a minimum of one full year of submitted data.
2. Agency has no Condition of Participation level deficiencies on their last State Survey.
3. Agency conducts a systematic review of a minimum of five patients that are hospitalized to identify:
  • Whether or not the hospitalization may have been avoided.
  • Underlying agency process failures contributing to the potentially avoidable hospitalizations.
Data tracking must be done for a minimum of three consecutive months and submitted toHealthInsight for review. If you need a tool, please contact HealthInsight.
Agencies meeting all three criteria will receive the 2010 HealthInsight Quality Award.

Recognition for Excellence in Quality Performance

HealthInsight recognizes that only a limited number of agencies will meet the criteria to receive a Quality Award. However, we also recognize that many agencies have instituted new processes, which have resulted in significant improvements and improved quality of care. HealthInsight will recognize home health agencies that demonstrate the specified level of improvement over a one-year time frame.

To be recognized for excellence in quality improvement, an agency must:
  • Decrease the gap between their ranking for the previous year’s award selection and the 100th percentile by 50%. That is, if the original ranking was the 20th percentile, the agency would have to improve to at least the 60th percentile: (20 + {[100 – 20] * 0.05}) = 60.
  • Have no Condition of Participation level deficiencies on their last State Survey.

For questions or more information, contact Cher Edmonds at 801-892-0155 orhomehealth@healthinsight.org; or Donna Thorson, 702-385-9933 orhomehealthnv@healthinsight.org.