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Nightingale Home Healthcare Receives Quality Improvement Award
Carmel, Indiana, June 01, 2004-Nightingale Home Healthcare has received a Medicare Home Health Quality Improvement Excellence Award from Health Care Excel, the Indiana Medicare Quality Improvement Organization, for demonstrating a strong commitment to quality improvement. The Home Health Quality Improvement Excellence Award recognizes those agencies that exhibit a commitment to superior care, and strive to better serve their customers, their staff, and their communities.
Education on quality improvement techniques and implementing successful strategies has helped Nightingale Home Healthcare to improve performance in patient care. Nightingale Home Healthcare has demonstrated effective accomplishments in the area of Improvement in Urinary Incontinence Outcome Measurements. Improvement in urinary incontinence helps to promote dignity of individuals and to prevent skin break down.
Nightingale Home Healthcare is a full service home health agency serving all of central Indiana. The service area covered is metro Indianapolis, Lafayette, Frankfort, Tipton, Elwood, Kokomo, Anderson, Greenfield, Shelbyville, Franklin, Columbus, Plainfield, Brownsburg, Danville, Zionsville and Lebanon. Nightingale Home Healthcare also serves the counties surrounding the above-mentioned towns. Certified with Medicare and Medicaid allows Nightingale Home Healthcare to provide a full range of services included but not limited to:
Nursing Services
- Diabetic Teaching
- CHF Monitoring
- Foley Catheter care
- Medication Teaching
- B12 Administration
- Infusion Therapy
- Wound Care
- Medical Supplies
Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Speech Therapy
Home Health Aides
- Bathing
- Light Housekeeping
- Meal Preparation
- Medical Social Workers
Nightingale Home Healthcare is a leader in technology among home healthcare agencies serving as the exclusive distributor of the HomMed vital sign monitoring system in central Indiana. To learn more about Nightingale Home Healthcare visit their website at www.HomeCareForYou.com or call 317-334-7777. Nightingale Home Healthcare, "Caring for you at home!"
"Recipients of this award reflect their commitment to provide quality care to home health patients," said Mitzi Daffron, Executive Director, Indiana Medicare Quality Improvement Organization. "Achieving excellence in home health care is a combination of quality improvement education, planning, implementation, and the evaluation of improvement efforts."
The Home Health Quality Improvement Award was created in response to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) national Home Health Quality Initiative's goal to assist every participating home health agency in demonstrating significant, measurable improvements in quality of care and health outcomes. CMS is a federal agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Consumers can obtain information about home health agencies in their area by visiting www.medicare.gov and clicking on Home Health Compare. Information about home health care also is available by calling 1-800-MEDICARE
(1-800-633-4227).
To learn more about Nightingale Home Healthcare, visit their website at www.HomeCareForYou.com.
Contact: Joe Seidel
317-334-7777
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