Wesley Medical Center Home Health recognized by Mississippi IQH

(From left to right) Director Carol Tatum, RN, Rhonda Head, RN, Melanie Herndon, RN, Kristi Barlow, RN, Eleanor Lott, RN, Jennifer Polk, RN, Shelli Weston, RN, Dianne Bourne, RN, and not pictured, Johnnie Donald, RN.

Wesley Medical Center Home Health has been recognized with an Outstanding Quality Award presented by Information & Quality Healthcare (IQH), the state’s quality improvement organization for Medicare.

In presenting the award, IQH President Dr. James S. McIlwain pointed out that the Wesley staff was honored for its commitment to quality reflected by documented improvement in two areas, increasing patients’ ambulation/locomotion and decreasing acute care hospitalization.

"Wesley's interest in and participation in quality of care projects is an important contribution to Medicare beneficiaries and the health care delivery system," said Dr. McIlwain.

Home health agencies, hospitals, nursing homes and physician offices throughout the state were among those recognized.

IQH, as the federally designated quality improvement organization for Medicare in the state, works under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services.