First to Care Home Care, Inc. Named National Best Practice Agency
Posted on: Tuesday, 10 January 2006, 18:00 CST
NEW YORK, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- First to Care Home Care, Inc. was named as a National Best Practice Agency by Briggs Corporation, the National Association for Home Care and Fazzi Associates in the National Home Care Quality Improvement/Hospitalization Reduction Project.
According to the nationally reported CMS Home Health Compare, First to Care's low hospitalization rates resulted in a ranking among the top 10% of the most successful agencies in the country for acute care hospitalization.
"We are extremely proud that First to Care has improved the lives of tens of thousands of New York seniors over the past 20 years. We are honored to be named as a National Best Practice Agency," says Maxine Hochhauser, Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer, Delivery System. "We look forward to continuing to improve the quality of care for seniors in Greater Metropolitan of New York."
First To Care Home Care, Inc. provides services, such as nursing care and rehabilitation, which are a continuation of hospital care-delivered in the familiar surroundings of a patient's home.
First To Care Home Care, Inc. is a participating program of Metropolitan Jewish Health System (MJHS). MJHS is a recognized leader in the field of integrated health care. MJHS' participating agencies and programs have nearly a century of health care experience and serve over 30,000 individuals and their families in the Greater Metropolitan New York area. MJHS' services include Home Care, Hospice, Skilled Nursing Facilities, Adult Day Health Care, HomeFirst and Elderplan.
For more information, call (718) 921-7601 or visit http://www.mjhs.org/.
Metropolitan Jewish Health System
CONTACT: Janet Rothman, +1-718-491-7245, for Metropolitan Jewish HealthSystem
Web site: http://www.mjhs.org/
Source: PRNewswire
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