Community Hospice & Palliative Care honored for highest level of care
Community Hospice & Palliative Care is a 2022 Hospice Honors recipient by HEALTHCAREfirst, a leading provider of billing and coding services, Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) surveys, and advanced analytics.
This annual review recognizes agencies that continuously provide the highest level of quality care as measured from the caregiver’s point of view. It acknowledges the highest performing agencies by analyzing the performance of the CAHPS hospice survey satisfaction measures.
Being the only hospice provider in the Northeast and North Central Florida to receive this distinction, Community Hospice & Palliative Care President and CEO Phillip Ward credits the dedication and commitment to extraordinary care by the entire 2022 Hospice Honors recipient.
“We know the care provided by our interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, and hospice aides is the best available and that it makes a difference for patients and families at the end of life,” Ward said. “It is gratifying to see that the rest of the nation is recognizing our staff for that great patient care.”
Award recipients were identified by evaluating performance on a set of 24 quality measures. Performance scores were aggregated from completed surveys and were compared on a question-by-question basis to a National Performance Score calculated from all hospices contained in the HEALTHCAREfirst’s Hospice CAHPS database.
HEALTHCAREfirst enables home health and hospice providers to streamline and optimize their business through CAHPS surveys, billing, coding and OASIS review, and advanced analytics services to increase business efficiencies, simplify CMS compliance, expedite reimbursement, and improve patient care.
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Girl Scouts of Gateway Council hosted the 30th annual Women Who Make a Difference event on June 2 at the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center in Gainesville.
The event, sponsored by Publix Charities, serves to recognize outstanding women leaders for their contributions to their community. This year’s honorees are Alena Lawson, Dorothy Benson, Sheila Crapo, Dorothy Thomas, and Ann Marie Rogers, who received the lifetime achievement award.
Honorees exemplify the Girl Scout mission as women of courage, confidence and character who are actively working to make the world a better place, emphasizing the organization's four pillars: STEM education, the outdoors, life skills and entrepreneurship.
This article originally appeared on The Gainesville Sun: Girl Scouts of Gateway Council celebrate Women Who Make a Difference
