2024 SHPBest™ CAHPS Hospice Award Recipients – Massachusetts
Premier Performers (Top 5% Nationally):
- Care Central VNA & Hospice, Inc., Gardner
- NVNA and Hospice, Norwell
Five-Year SHP Best Honorees
Sustained Excellence – Five-Year SHPBest™ Honorees
Only a handful of agencies nationwide have earned recognition for five consecutive years.
- NVNA and Hospice – Norwell, MA
Recognized for both Hospice and Home Health
2024 Hospice: Premier Performer (Top 5%)
2024 Home Health: Premier Performer (Top 5%) - Community Nurse Home Care – Fairhaven, MA
2024 Home Health: Five-Year SHPBest™ Honoree
These organizations demonstrate an enduring commitment to compassionate, high-quality care that makes a measurable difference in the lives of patients and families.
Community Nurse Home Care Achieves a Five-Star Rating
| We’re thrilled to share a success story that highlights the impact of SHP’s tools and strategies. Community Nurse Home Care (CNHC), a leading home health agency in Massachusetts, partnered with SHP to reach their ambitious goal of consistent 5-Star ratings for Quality of Patient Care and HHCAHPS. Through their commitment and the use of SHP’s innovative solutions, they achieved outstanding results. |
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Care Central VNA & Hospice, Inc.’s Hospice Program is among the Top 10 in the State
December 23, 2024 – The Hospice & Palliative Care Federation of Massachusetts ( HPCFM) has recognized Care Central VNA & Hospice, Inc.’s Hospice program as among the Top 10 in the State!
The ranking reflects high marks in both quality measure scoring on the Hospice Information Set (HIS) as well as Patient and Caregiver Satisfaction ( CAHPS) scoring. Care Central VNA & Hospice, Inc.’s President & CEO Holly Chaffee congratulates Hospice Medical Director, Dr. John Harrington, Clinical IS & Hospice Officer, Kelly Ann Loescher, and Hospice Supervisors, Claudia Marsh and Holly Rosinha-Nichols for their leadership and to our dedicated Hospice team for this testament to our superior level of care!
Latest Post: RVNAhealth’s Keri Linardi wins 2022 Judith Hriceniak Award for Excellence in Nursing Leadership
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RVNAhealth’s Keri Lindardi wins 2022 CAHCH Judith Hriceniak Nursing Leadership Award
RVNAhealth’s Theresa Santoro Wins CAHCH 2020 Judith Hriceniak Award for Excellence in Nursing Leadership
RVNAhealth’s Theresa Santoro wins 2020 Judith Hriceniak Award for Excellence in Nursing Leadership
Prestigious annual tribute is awarded by the Connecticut Association
of Healthcare at Home (CAHCH)
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Theresa Santoro, MSN, RN, CHCA, President and CEO of RVNAhealth was officially awarded the 2020 Judith Hriceniak Award for Excellence in Nursing Leadership on Friday, November 6th by the Connecticut Association for Healthcare at Home (CAHCH). The prestigious annual award, presented at the CAHCH annual conference, recognizes a nursing leader who serves as a visionary role model, inspires others through development and life-long learning, incorporates technology into the practice of nursing and patient education; and consistently displays strong communication and collaboration. Santoro was nominated by her RVNAhealth team, the beneficiaries of her talents and vision.
Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Fairfield County and Waveny LifeCare Announce Proposed Affiliation
For Immediate Release – November 5, 2020
Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Fairfield County and Waveny LifeCare Network Announce Proposed Affiliation
The Boards of Directors of Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Fairfield County (VNHFC) and Waveny LifeCare Network (WLN) are pleased to announce that they have entered into an exclusive letter of intent to combine home care and hospice operations to better serve patients in Fairfield County and beyond. The organizations intend to enter into a formal Affiliation Agreement by year end 2020, subject to final due diligence, regulatory approvals and final board approvals. The parties propose for VNHFC to initially become a wholly-owned subsidiary of WLN, but plan to explore the opportunity of formally merging operations with WLN’s affiliate, Waveny Home Healthcare, at a later date. The transaction is subject to review and approval by several governmental agencies, including Connecticut’s Department of Public Health, and separate approvals will be sought if the parties determine to formally merge.
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RVNAhealth Merger with Bethel VNA and New Milford VNA
Ridgefield, Bethel and New Milford Visiting Nurse Associations (VNAs) Announce Plan to Join Forces and Expand Home Health and Hospice Services in Western Connecticut
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Nancy Rowe, Director of Marketing & Public Relations, RVNAhealth
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Driven by a common commitment to deliver the highest quality health care to their patients and communities, Bethel Visiting Nurse Association, New Milford Visiting Nurse & Hospice, and RVNAhealth, announced plans today to merge their three organizations. The tri-union will result in a single not-for-profit, mission-driven organization, best able to meet the needs of the 36 communities they collectively serve in Fairfield, Litchfield, and New Haven counties, and highly sustainable for the long term. The agencies anticipate a close date by the end of 2020 and the unified organization will operate as RVNAhealth as approved by their respective Boards of Directors. This merger will make RVNAhealth one of the two largest home health and hospice organizations in Fairfield County and the seventh largest in the state of Connecticut.
Congratulations VNANE SHP Award Winners
Congratulations to the following VNANE member agencies who made the SHP Best 2019 Home Health Patient Satisfaction Award Winners List (www.shpdata.com).
Berlin Visiting Nurse Association (Berlin, CT); Community Nurse Home Care (Fairhaven, MA); Community VNA (Attleboro, MA); Natick Walpole VNA (Walpole, MA); NVNA and Hospice (Norwell, MA); Stratford VNA (Stratford, CT).
Congratulations to the following VNANE member agencies who made the SHP Best 2019 Hospice Caregiver Satisfaction Award Winners List (www.shpdata.com).
Community Nurse Home Care (Fairhaven, MA); Nashoba Nursing Service & Hospice (Shirley, MA); NVNA and Hospice (Norwell, MA); VNA of Southern Worcester County, Inc. (Auburn, MA).
NVNA & Hospice SHP Best Home Health Award Winner
NVNA & Hospice SHP Best Home Health Patient Satisfaction 2019 Winner: Top 20% Superior Performer
Provided by Norwell VNA & Hospice:
Once again, [NVNA & Hospice] has been awarded the SHP Best Home Health Patient Satisfaction Award as a superior performer for 2019. The award, from Strategic Healthcare Programs, a nation vendor for home care and hospice benchmarks and patient satisfaction measurement, recognizes [NVNA & Hospice] for achieving an overall score that ranked [them] in the top 20% of agencies in the SHP national HHCAHPS benchmark (Medicare patient satisfaction benchmarks).