Sparrow Home Care earns OCS Vision Award for Successful Program Implementation ,
9/25/2008
Sparrow one of five providers earning award from Seattle-based firm
LANSING, Mich. — Sparrow Home Care, led by Administrative Director Susan M. Powell, has earned one of five Vision Awards awarded by Seattle-based OCS, Inc., which specializes in health care information solutions. The OCS Vision Awards go each year to agencies that implement “successful programs to improve performance across clinical, operational, financial, and marketing aspects of their business.”
“Every caregiver at Sparrow Home Care strives to provide quality, compassionate care to every patient, every hour of the day,” Powell said. “It’s an honor that Sparrow Home Care’s commitment to use data to improve patient outcomes has been recognized at the national level.”
Sparrow Home Care members work as a team to ensure an uninterrupted continuum of care for patients as they move from the hospital to varying stages of home care. The broad range of services provided by Sparrow Home Care include nursing services, maternal/child services, rehabilitative services, personal care, wound care, infusion therapy, speech therapy, and physical and occupational therapy. The Sparrow Home Care team includes registered nurses, home health aides, speech therapists, occupational therapists, physical therapists and medical social workers. Showing their commitment to excellence, all members of the home care network voluntarily sought and received accreditation from the Joint Commission, the country’s predominant standards-setting and accrediting body in health care.
“It has become increasingly more exciting each year to review the applications submitted for he Vision Awards,” OCS President Amanda Twiss said. “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.”
As mid-Michigan’s premier health care organization and the region’s largest private employer, Sparrow has two Lansing campuses, affiliate hospitals in St. Johns, Carson City and Ionia, dozens of satellite care centers, the Sparrow Health Science Pavilion and the Michigan Athletic Club. A major teaching hospital, Sparrow also offers 24 residency programs established in partnership with Michigan State University.
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