Professional Healthcare Resources Gains CHAP Accreditation
Annandale, Va - Professional Healthcare Resources, Inc., a home health and hospice provider with branches in Virginia, Washington, DC, and Maryland, announced its accreditation by the Community Health Accreditation Program (CHAP), the premier accrediting organization for the home care industry.
Eileen DeCesare, the company's President and Founder, said, "Becoming CHAP-accredited has been a dream of mine for years. I am so proud of our company for having achieved this new level of recognition. Our mission is 'To Provide High Quality Home Health and Hospice to More People,' and being CHAP-accredited will help us expand the number of patients, families, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted-living facilities, and physicians to whom we offer the best home health and hospice care in our region."
CHAP's purpose is to objectively validate the excellence of community health care practice through consistent measurement of the delivery of quality services. By doing so, it seeks to motivate providers to achieve continuous improvement by adhering to standards of excellence. It also seeks to assist the public in the selection of community health services and providers with demonstrated excellence.
Professional Healthcare's Lanham, Maryland branch was already CHAP-accredited. This new review by the national CHAP organization extends accreditation to home health services in all eight of the company's branches. Professional Healthcare is currently seeking CHAP accreditation for the company's hospice service line.
In addition to achieving accreditation, Professional Healthcare received two commendations from CHAP -- commendations are given to only a few of the organizations seeking CHAP accreditation. One commendation recognized the company's innovative approach to collecting exit interview information from employees leaving the company and feeding that back into the company's recruiting efforts. The other commendation recognized the company's inclusion on the HomeCare Elite lists for 2006 and 2007 prepared by Outcome Concept Systems, Inc. (OCS) and DecisionHealth. The Home Care Elite list is the definitive compilation of the most successful Medicare-certified home health care providers in the US. This list recognizes those agencies whose performance measures in quality outcomes, quality improvement, and financial performance are the best in the nation. Six of the company's eight branches appeared on the list, including one in the Top 100 (of almost 9,000 agencies nationwide) and four in the Top 500.
SOURCE: Professional Healthcare Resources, Inc.