Be on the look-out for your May/June 2007 copy of Success in Home Care magazine (Vol. 12, No. 3 - May/June 2007), featuring the 2006 HomeCare Elite and how these agencies found their way to the top.

The 2006 HomeCare Elite is the inaugural compilation of the most successful Medicare-certified home care providers in the United States. This ground-breaking review lists those agencies whose performance measures in quality, improvement and financial performance are in the top 25 percent of all agencies in the country.

View the 2006 HomeCare Elite Agencies Here

Last Call! Mark your calendars, enroll, and invite your staff to attend! These informative, educational web conferences are on current issues, topics and trends in the Home Health, Hospice and Private Duty industries. And there is never a charge!

Are You Ready For The QAPI CoP And To Excel As An NHPCO Quality Partner?
Wednesday, April 11th
Noon PDT/3 pm EDT
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Attend this web conference to learn how the OCS Hospice PeerForum - the leading hospice performance management program - combines the wealth of information from our Annual and Quarterly Benchmark reports with interpretation guidance, educational programming, facilitated peer networking and other valuable services that will help you prepare for the QAPI CoP and excel as an NHPCO Quality Partner.

Reduce Hospitalization and Emergent Care with PatientView!
Thursday, April 12th
10 am PDT/1 pm EDT
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Attend this web conference to learn how PatientView, our new automated high-risk patient assessment service, predicts the risk of a patient experiencing acute care hospitalizations or emergent care during service. PatientView can help your agency reduce hospitalization and emergent care.

Make sure you check out the complete, updated Informational Web Conference Schedule!

See you at NHPCO!

We hope to see you and your team members at the NHPCO Management and Leadership Conference in Washington, DC, April 19-21.

We always look forward to these conferences as great opportunities for education and to connect with as many of you as possible! Stop by our booth, #201, to meet some of the OCS staff, as well as your PeerForum member colleagues.

With the launch of the NHPCO Quality Partners initiative at last year's MLC, there is a growing focus on quality. Come hear Martha Tecca, OCS Senior Director of Hospice, Thursday, April 19 at 10:15am. The topic is Utilizing Patient Level Data Analysis to Assess and Manage Clinical & Operational Performance. She'll describe this valuable capability - soon to be a reality for OCS Hospice PeerForum members!

Also we have 17 sessions being presented by OCS Hospice PeerForum members. Be sure to check out other OCS Peers Speaking at NHPCO Conference.

OCS at CHA

If you'll be attending the 2007 Catholic Home Care and Long- term Care Symposium April 15-18 , at the TradeWinds Island Grand Beach Resort in St. Pete Beach, Florida , we look forward to seeing you!

OCS will be exhibiting and Melinda Moore , BSN, RN and Director of Strategy and Planning will speak on Learning from the Past, Looking Towards the Future: The Power of Predictive Modeling.

Don't miss out on these great opportunities in the Sunshine State!

Have you read the March/April 2007 issue of the Remington Report?

The focus is on Technology - What Your Peers Are Doing! and features articles by several OCS Clients, and others, highlighting the many ways they use the insight their data provides.

Be sure to check out the cool charts and graphs included in some of the articles!

There are some very cool reports posted on OCS Home Health Connection which you cannot access via OCS-Gateway.

Download this quick information sheet to find out how to access them!