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HomeSight Agencies Ranked among top 25% of Home Health Providers in Country

Lake Charles, LA, December 19, 2006 — HomeSight of Texas Beaumont and HomeSight of Southeast Louisiana today announced that they have been named to the 2006 HomeCare Elite, the inaugural compilation of the most successful home care providers in the country. This ground-breaking review names the Medicare-certified agencies whose performance measures in quality, improvement and financial performance are among the top 25% of providers nationwide. Additionally, the 2006 HomeCare Elite indicates those providers ranked in the Top 100 and Top 500 of providers nationwide.

“We applaud the success of all the providers named to the 2006 HomeCare Elite”, said Bill Bassett, Senior Director of Market Strategy at OCS, Inc. “Being noted as one of the top performers in the nation in this very competitive environment shows that HomeSight is dedicated to quality and performance.”

Lisi Coleman, HomeSight’s CEO, credits clinical excellence and endurance with the company’s ability to rank as one of the HomeCare Elite. She said, "We were hit in New Orleans by hurricane Katrina and one month later, hurricane Rita slammed Beaumont and Lake Charles.  We lost over 40% of our census in one day.  Our leadership and direct care staff worked tirelessly to find patients, save jobs and continuing providing our unique, specialty services to low vision patients.  We are proud to be recognized by HomeCare Elite for our dedication to quality care, financial responsibility, and improved outcomes."

"As performance improvement, both clinical and financial, continues to be a critical metric for home care agencies, it’s wonderful that we now have an award that recognizes our industry’s highest achievers," said Tonya Nevin, Executive Publisher of DecisionHealth. "We congratulate HomeSight of Texas-Beaumont and HomeSight of Southeast Louisiana on being two of the top 25% best performing home care agencies in the country."

The 2006 HomeCare Elite is the first performance recognition of its kind in the home health industry.  The 2006 HomeCare Elite is brought to the industry by OCS, Inc., the leading provider of healthcare informatics and DecisionHealth, publisher of home care’s most respected independent newsletter Home Health Line. The data used for this analysis was complied from publicly available information.  The entire list of the 2006 HomeCare Elite agencies can be viewed by visiting the OCS web site (www.ocsys.com).

About HomeSight
HomeSight is a national consultant and regional provider of solutions for low-vision patients.

About OCS, Inc.
OCS is a healthcare information company with the nation’s largest and most comprehensive set of measures spanning clinical outcomes, financial performance, resource utilization, patient satisfaction and operational indicators for Home Care, Hospice, and Private Duty programs. The OCS suite of products and services provide healthcare organizations the insight to improve the quality of care for their patients while enhancing the effectiveness of their organization. Serving the needs of healthcare organizations, vendors and consultants, OCS provider clients consistently rank in the top one-third of all healthcare organizations in the country.