South Nassau Communities Hospital Ranked in Top Tier Among Providers of Home Care Services

Oceanside, NY, December 23, 2015 --(PR.com)-- For the 10th consecutive year, South Nassau Communities Hospital Home Care has earned a spot in the prestigious HomeCare Elite™ listing of the top 25% of home health care providers in the United States. The listing is based on a collection of performance measures including quality of care, quality improvement, patient experience, process measure implementation, and financial performance.

“The families and patients we serve via home care should be assured that they are receiving the very best care, as recognized by this elite national ranking,” said said Richard J. Murphy, president and CEO at South Nassau. “This prestigious award symbolizes South Nassau’s trademark commitment to teamwork and its mission to be standard-setting provider of quality healthcare services whenever and wherever they are needed.”

The 2015 Home Care Elite listing, brought to the industry by National Research Corporation, parent company of Outcome Concept Services (OCS) Home Care, and DecisionHealth, uses publicly available data from the CMS Home Health Compare and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Cost reports.

South Nassau’s Certified Home Health Agency offers short-term and acute care home care services. The range of services include: skilled nursing, rehabilitation services, medical social services, home health aide services and nutritional counseling. Laboratory services, medical supplies and equipment and IV therapy services can be arranged through contracted vendors. In addition, it offers specialty programs such as telehealth, medication management, and a fall prevention program. Advanced wound care treatment and negative pressure wound therapy can also be provided.

South Nassau Home Health Care is licensed by the New York State Department of Health and certified to participate in Medicare, Medicaid and Blue Cross programs, as well as accredited by The Joint Commission. For more information about South Nassau Home Care, call (516) 377-5000.

The 10th consecutive year on the Home Care Elite listing is among a multitude of other awards for safety and quality that South Nassau has earned in 2015, including:

- ‘A’ for patient safety fromThe Leapfrog Group;

- American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer Outstanding Achievement Award;

- Home Health Quality Improvement Gold Medal;

- New York State Department of Health’s Perinatal Quality Collaborative Obstetrical Improvement Quality Improvement Award;

- American Heart Association/
American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®–Target: Stroke Honor Roll-Elite Quality Achievement Award;

- American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Foundation Get With The Guidelines®–Heart Failure Silver-Plus Quality Achievement Award.

Designated a Magnet® hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), South Nassau® Communities Hospital is one of the region’s largest hospitals, with 455 beds, more than 900 physicians and 3,000 employees. Located in Oceanside, NY, the hospital is an acute-care, not-for-profit teaching hospital that provides state-of-the-art care in cardiac, oncologic, orthopedic, bariatric, pain management, mental health and emergency services. In addition to its extensive outpatient specialty centers, South Nassau provides emergency and elective angioplasty, and is the only hospital on Long Island with the Novalis Tx™ and Gamma Knife® radiosurgery technologies. South Nassau is a designated Stroke Center by the New York State Department of Health and Comprehensive Community Cancer Center by the American College of Surgeons and is an accredited center of the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Association and Quality Improvement Program.