Community HomeHealth earns national recognition

Community HealthCare System’s home healthcare agency, Community HomeHealth, has been named a 2021 HHCAHPS Honors recipient by HEALTHCAREfirst. The honor recognizes agencies that continuously provide a positive patient experience and high-quality care as determined by analysis of Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey satisfaction measures. Community HomeHealth was previously recognized by HHCAHPS in 2017, 2018, and 2020. This year, the agency was one of only five in the state of Kansas to achieve the honor. In 2019, Community HomeHealth also achieved HomeCare Elite status for the twelfth year in a row, meaning it’s in the top 25 percent of home care providers in the nation based on performance measures including quality of care, quality improvement, patient experience, and more. (This program was suspended in 2020 because of the pandemic.) A reputation for quality has translated into more patients, too: Since 2016, the unduplicated census,