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COLUMBIA, S.C. /ScoopCloud/ -- Heartstrings Hospice has been named a 2019 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.

"We are excited to recognize the 2019 Hospice Honors recipients for their hard work and dedication to providing exceptional care," said Misty Skinner, Executive Vice President of Services at HEALTHCAREfirst. "I congratulate Heartstrings Hospice on its success in achieving this highest of honors."

Award criteria were based on Hospice CAHPS survey results for an evaluation period of October 2017 through September 2018. 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. HEALTHCAREfirst holds a special recognition, Hospice Honors Elite, to honor hospices scoring above the HEALTHCAREfirst National Performance Score on all 24 of the evaluated questions.

Heartstrings Hospice President, Stephen Shroyer, credits highly qualified, team-oriented employees who are full of compassion for a standard of care which has led to this 2019 Hospice Honors recognition. He said, "We have been fortunate to attract healthcare professionals who are passionate for patient and family care. They not only serve patients at the highest level, they work as a team to provide for all medical and spiritual needs."

Heartstrings Hospice is locally owned and operated in the Midlands of South Carolina to help support patients and families during the difficult time of end-of-life events. Heartstrings Hospice's medical director is Board Certified in Hospice and Palliative Care. Heartstrings professionals have specialized training in the latest therapies for pain and symptom control which enable the patient to live their life fully and as comfortably as possible.

Learn more about award-winning Heartstrings Hospice at https://www.heartstringshospice.com/.

HEALTHCAREfirst is a wholly owned subsidiary of ResMed (NYSE: RMD, ASX: RMD). Visit https://www.healthcarefirst.com/ for more on the CAHPS survey program and the Hospice Honors awards.

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Heartstrings Hospice has been named a 2019 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.

Related link: https://www.heartstringshospice.com/

PITTSBURGH, Pa. /ScoopCloud/ -- Delta Care Rx, a leading pharmaceutical innovator in end of life care, announces an exciting interface with HEALTHCAREfirst, a leading provider of web-based home health and hospice software, billing and coding services, Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems, or CAHPS, Surveys and advanced analytics.

The partnership enables Delta Care Rx Hospice pharmacy solutions to interface effortlessly with the HEALTHCAREfirst comprehensive electronic health records, or EHR, systems, including firstHOSPICE and firstHOMECARE.

"Delta Care Rx enjoys a growing segment of users within our customer base," says J. Kevin Porter, CEO of HEALTHCAREfirst, citing a recent, internal survey of clients. "This partnership strategically provides the interface those hospice clients need to create greater ease in workflow."

Thanks to the interface, slated for early April, clinicians will be able to enhance workflow efficiency from a single point of demographic data entry in the EHR, which will then flow electronically to Delta Care Rx.

For example, when a nurse inputs patient information into the HEALTHCAREfirst EHR, it appears in Delta Care Rx's e-tools automatically. The automatic transfer of vital information saves valuable time, reduces error, and improves patient care by reducing the effort required to ensure patients receive medications needed for quality outcomes.

In the future, a pharmaceutical interface will make it possible to order medications directly from the EHR. Users will also have the option of utilizing Delta Care Rx's user-friendly durable medical equipment (DME) management software and provider network. Again, as patient demographic information proves readily available in the e-tools software suite, there's no task repetition. Delta Care Rx pharmacy and DME orders can be placed from any digital device, including smart phones. There is no additional cost to HEALTHCAREfirst users who choose to add this interface.

"Managing pharmacy, alongside DME inside the same platform, definitely saves time and capital," says Drew Mihalyo, president and COO at Delta Care Rx. "This interface saves duplication of labor across the board for clients who already use a very powerful product via HEALTHCAREfirst."

Delta Care Rx partners with EHR vendors, like HEALTHCAREfirst, within the hospice industry to provide EHR clients with easy to use, innovative interfaces to enhance clinical efficiency and reduce operating costs.

About Delta Care Rx:

Delta Care Rx - http://www.deltacarerx.com - transforms and improves the hospice pharmacy industry through business transparency, innovation, extreme customer service, and the maintenance of vital community pharmacy relationships. As a pharmacist owned, privately held provider, Delta Care Rx sets the industry benchmark for pharmacy benefit management, creative prescription mail order, on-demand pharmacist services, and hospice tailored e-Prescribing. Additionally, Delta Care Rx offers electronic tools, including cutting-edge telemedicine technology to improve the quality of palliative patient care during serious illness or at end of life, and simplifies essential workflow/ordering processes within hospice settings.

About HEALTHCAREfirst:

HEALTHCAREfirst - http://www.healthcarefirst.com/ - provides web-based technologies and services to improve business and clinical operations for over four thousand home health and hospice providers across the United States. Based in Springfield, MO, and one of the fastest growing providers of its kind, the company provides, in any combination, agency and clinical management software; outsourced revenue cycle management services including billing, coding and home health Outcome and Assessment Information Set, or OASIS, Review; CAHPS surveys; and advanced analytics. HEALTHCAREfirst's breadth of solutions offers agencies a single source to improve patient care, create operational efficiencies, increase profitability and simplify CMS compliance. With HEALTHCAREfirst, agencies can focus on patients instead of paperwork.

Delta Care Rx, a leading pharmaceutical innovator in end of life care, announces an exciting interface with HEALTHCAREfirst, a leading provider of web-based home health and hospice software, billing and coding services, Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems, or CAHPS, Surveys and advanced analytics.

Related link: http://www.deltacarerx.com/

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