LIMA — St. Rita’s Home Medical Equipment has announced it has been named a Top Agency of the 2012 HomeCare Elite™, a compilation of the top-performing home health agencies in the United States. Now in its seventh year, the HomeCare Elite identifies the top 25 percent of Medicare-certified agencies and further highlights the top 100 and top 500 agencies overall. Winners are ranked by an analysis of publicly available performance measures in quality outcomes, process measure implementation, patient experience (Home Health CAHPS), quality improvement and financial performance.

“The 2012 HomeCare Elite winners demonstrate a commitment  to  providing  patient-centered  care and  serving   as  leaders  in  the   home  health community.  Their  success  offers  data-driven proof of being well-managed and high-quality care providers to hospitals, managed care organizations, ACOs and other potential referral partners across the healthcare continuum,” said Susan L. Henricks, president and COO of National Research Corporation, the parent company of OCS HomeCare. “Again this year, we  updated  our methodology to reflect the rapidly-evolving quality-focused healthcare landscape and national value-based purchasing trends.”