Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare Launches New Website

New Interactive Website and Blog to Increase Awareness about Skilled Home Healthcare, the Clinically Advanced and Cost Effective Choice Preferred by 89 Percent of Senior Citizens

WASHINGTON, March 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare -- a coalition representing more than 1,500 community- and hospital-based skilled home healthcare agencies nationwide – is dedicated to developing innovative reforms to improve the program integrity, quality, and efficiency of home healthcare for our nation's seniors.  As part of its efforts, the Partnership today launched www.homehealth4america.org, an interactive website, which expands the Partnership's online presence and offers a myriad of resources about home healthcare, the patients it serves, its role in the healthcare continuum and the policy issues impacting the sector today.

"We are excited to launch our website, which we hope will serve as a leading resource to decision makers, media, healthcare stakeholders and the broader community," said Eric Berger, CEO of the Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare.  "As a clinically advanced and highly cost effective setting, home healthcare is meeting the care needs of a diverse senior population while reducing America's healthcare costs.  We hope that our website will serve as an effective tool to increase understanding about the role and value of skilled home healthcare services in America."

The new website includes a variety of features to help inform viewers about the Partnership and stay connected to receive regular updates about home healthcare, advocacy opportunities and Partnership initiatives.  Website offerings include:

• Testimonials about home healthcare from lawmakers and thought leaders;
• An interactive map illustrating where Partnership member agencies are located across the United States;
• Home healthcare news and Partnership press statements;
• A comprehensive set of home healthcare resources including research, data and letters of support;
• Capabilities to join the Partnership's social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter and the Partnership blog; and
• An opportunity to sign up for Partnership Action Alerts.

The Partnership invites everyone to visit its new website and learn more about the important role home healthcare plays in the lives of millions of patients as well as about the Partnership's efforts to improve the program integrity, quality and efficiency of skilled home healthcare services for all Americans.

To learn more, visit www.homehealth4america.org.

SOURCE Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare