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Interim HealthCare of Erie and Meadville Ranked Among Top 500 of Home Health Providers in the Country.

Erie, Pa, January 5, 2009, Interim HealthCare of Erie and Meadville today announced that it has been named to the 2008 HomeCare Elite, a compilation of the most successful Medicare-certified home health care providers in the United States. This annual review identifies the Top 500 of agencies (top 6%), ranked by an analysis of performance measures in quality outcomes, quality improvement and financial performance.

The 2008 HomeCare Elite also indicates those providers who are included in the Top 25 percent and Top 100 of providers nationwide. The data used for this analysis was compiled from publicly available information.

The 2008 HomeCare Elite winners exemplify a commitment to providing their patients with optimum care while performing at the highest level, said Nancy Buller, Senior Director of Marketing Communications at OCS, Inc. "We congratulate Interim HealthCare of Erie and Meadville on being one of the Top 500 home care agencies in the country."

Interim HealthCare of Erie/Meadville's Administrator, Joe Kavlick, credits our highly skilled and experienced supervisory/field staff and their intense dedication to providing quality care to our patients, with the company's ability to rank as one of the HomeCare Elite. He said, "We are very proud of the fact that we are the region's only top 500 provider for two years running. From our Clinical Supervisors, to our Field and In-office staff, we are all completely dedicated to providing superior healthcare services to our patients in their homes." It's a permanent and constant driving force in our organizational culture."

DecisionHealth would like to congratulate the top HomeCare Elite agencies that achieved excellent clinical and financial outcomes by providing quality care to their patients, adds Marci Heydt, Executive Editor of DecisionHealth Home Health Line.
The 2008 HomeCare Elite is the only performance recognition of its kind in the home health industry. The 2008 HomeCare Elite is brought to the industry by OCS, Inc., the leading provider of healthcare informatics, and DecisionHealth, publisher of home care's most respected independent newsletter Home Health Line. The entire list of the 2008 HomeCare Elite agencies can be viewed by visiting the OCS web site at www.ocsys.com/HCE.