Press Release

Kosciusko Home Care & Hospice, Hospice Team – Dr. Mark Meyer, Rachel Ganter, Amy Kellar, Jaimie Sumwalt, Jackie Snider, Jeni Riley, Glenn Hall, Randall Myers, Shelley Holderman. InkFreeNews photo provided by Brittany Lyon.

WARSAW—For the sixth year in a row, Kosciusko Home Care & Hospice has been named a 2021 Hospice Honors recipient by HEALTHCAREfirst, a leading provider of billing and coding services, CAHPS surveys and advanced analytics.

Hospice Honors is a prestigious program that recognizes hospices providing the highest level of quality as measured from the caregiver’s point of view.

“Hospice Honors recipients are industry leaders in providing quality care and constantly seeking ways to improve,” said Ronda Howard, Vice President Revenue Cycle and CAHPS at HEALTHCAREfirst. “We are honored to be aligned with such high performing agencies like Kosciusko Home Care & Hospice and we congratulate them on their success.”

Award criteria were based on Hospice CAHPS survey results for an evaluation period of October 2019 through September 2020. Award recipients were identified by evaluating performance on a set of 24 quality indicator measures. Performance scores were aggregated from all 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.

Hospice Honors recipients include those hospices scoring above the HEALTHCAREfirst National Performance Score on 20 of the evaluated questions. Please visit HEALTHCAREfirst’s website at www.healthcarefirst.com to learn more about HEALTHCAREfirst’s Hospice CAHPS survey program as well as the Hospice Honors awards.

Kosciusko Home Care & Hospice’s mission is “to make a positive difference in the lives of those we serve, to treat all individuals with integrity, compassion, and respect, and to deliver the highest quality of home health care and hospice services to those in need.”

Their programs operate in Kosciusko County and surrounding towns. Kosciusko Home Care & Hospice opened in 1976 and is the only locally owned Home Care & Hospice agency serving our community. Kosciusko Home Care & Hospice is a 501 (c) 3 public charity. For more information, visit www.koshomecare.org or call 574-372-3401.