SEATTLE, WA (August 28, 2008) – OCS is pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 OCS Vision Awards. In its eighth year, the OCS Vision Awards honor and recognize the exceptional efforts of home care and hospice providers across the country actively engaged in strategic initiatives that improve quality of care and organizational performance.
Each of the applications submitted by OCS clients demonstrated creative use of the insight provided by their data to improve patient outcomes, overcome challenges and/or achieve organizational goals.
2008 OCS Vision Award Winner for Visionary Leadership
- Interim Health Care – Greenville was selected to receive the Visionary Leadership Award
- Dianne Wingate, Outcomes Management Director
In addition to our Visionary Leadership Award, OCS offers Vision Awards to agencies that have implemented successful programs to improve performance across clinical, operational, financial, and marketing aspects of their business. The winners are listed below:
- Caritas Home Care
- Debbie Costello, Director of Quality and Training
- Continuum Home Health
- Sandra Owens, QI Coordinator
- Kno-Wal-Lin
- Bambi Kay, Director of Performance Improvement and Quality Outreach
- Home Health Care of Sparrow
- Susan M. Powell, Administrative Director
- CHE – VNA Home Health and Hospice
- Leah Wright, Manager of Performance Improvement
“It has become increasingly more exciting each year to review the applications submitted for the Vision Awards,” said Amanda Twiss, OCS President. “This year’s entries demonstrate the creativity of our clients in developing new ways of using the insight their OCS data provides to achieve success. In the end, it is all about improving overall patient care and we are pleased to recognize the innovative work of the 2008 OCS Vision Award winners.”
Please direct all inquiries regarding the OCS Vision Awards to the OCS Education Department at 206.325.3396 or education@ocsys.com.
About OCS
OCS is the market leader in healthcare information solutions. By collecting, evaluating and
interpreting healthcare information, we empower leaders with data-driven insight that helps optimize mission-critical decision-making. OCS combines the richness of the nation’s most comprehensive post-acute Data Warehouse with cutting-edge analysis tools, consulting services and custom technology solutions. Our information-based solutions facilitate providers, payors, industry analysts, consultants, federal and state governments, medical products and pharmaceutical companies with advancing their missions using objective, independent information that is not available from other sources.