Twin County Regional Home Health Receives Prestigious

Home Health Quality Achievement Award

Twin County Regional Home Health received the Virginia Health Quality Center Home Health Quality Achievement Award for excellence in quality improvement measures.

The award recognizes Twin County Regional Home Health based on the agency’s excellence in meeting specific achievements in medical care provided to Medicare patients in the areas of reducing the incidence of acute care hospitalizations, improvement in management of oral medications, improving immunization use and target setting. The award was presented by the Virginia Health Quality Center (VHQC) at the 2007 Quality Outcomes Congress in Richmond, Virginia on December 4th.

"We are delighted to recognize Twin County Regional Home Health as a partner and congratulate them on their achievements," explained Donald A. Glozer, President and CEO of the VHQC.

"Twin County Regional Home Health Agency has had and will continue to have a high commitment to providing quality care to our patients to help them achieve the best possible outcome from the home care they receive. We are proud of our staff and agency in this accomplishment," commented Meta Smith, RN, BSN, Assistant Vice President of Patient Care Services for Home Health and Hospice of Twin County Regional Healthcare.

Twin County Regional Home Health was a member of a select group of 149 Virginia home health agencies chosen to participate in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Home Health Quality Initiative. To receive the Home Health Quality Achievement Award, these home health agencies accomplished a required level of improvement in quality measures between September 2006 and August 2007. Twin County Regional Home Health was one of only eight agencies to receive this level of award.