How One Home Health Agency Earned Five Stars

(By – Michael Tomsic, WFAE)

Home health agencies are a segment of the medical industry that you may not know about if you or a loved one has never needed one. The companies send therapists and nurses into the homes of Medicare patients to help them recover from an illness or surgery.

This summer the federal government started rating home health agencies – doling out one to five stars – to give consumers a better picture of the job  they do. The top grades were elusive: only 239 agencies out of 9,000 nationwide earned five stars, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis. Read more…

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