Huntingdon, Tenn., Dec. 11, 2006 – Baptist Home Care and Hospice-Huntingdon recently was recognized as one of the top 100 home care agencies in the nation in the 2006 HomeCare Elite rankings.

The HomeCare Elite list identifies the top 25 percent of home care agencies in the United States based on quality of care, quality improvement and financial performance. In addition, Baptist Home Care and Hospice-Huntingdon is among the top 10 percent of home care agencies in Tennessee in terms of lowest number of readmissions into the hospital.

Baptist Home Care and Hospice-Huntingdon was also recently recognized for its efforts to reduce hospitalization of home care patients. QSource, the agency that monitors quality care in Tennessee for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, recently named Baptist Home Care and Hospice-Huntingdon one of the 10 most improved home care agencies in the state for its low hospital readmission rates.

“We are very excited and honored to receive these recognitions,” says Maydris Morgan, registered nurse and clinical director for Baptist Home Care and Hospice-Huntingdon. “We are dedicated to providing a high level of care because we strive to do what is right for each patient every time.”

Baptist Huntingdon offers an array of services in specialties including internal medicine, pediatrics, family practice, general surgery, orthopedics, otolaryngology, infectious diseases, urology, pathology and radiology. Other services include behavioral health and occupational medicine.

For more information about services offered at Baptist Huntingdon, please call 731-986-4461 or visit http://huntingdon.baptistonline.org.

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