"Hospice Honors is a landmark compilation of hospices that provide the best patient and caregiver experiences," said Bobby Robertson, President and CEO of HEALTHCAREfirst.  'I am extremely proud of Scotland Regional Hospice for achieving this highest of honors and I congratulate them on their success."

Award criteria were based on Hospice CAHPS survey results for an evaluation period of April through September 2015.  In order to receive the award, hospices must have partnered with Deyta Analytics as their survey partner and must have had at least one completed survey returned in each quarter of the evaluation period.  Award recipients were identified by evaluating hospices' performance on a set of 24 quality indicator measures.  Individual hospice performance scores were aggregated from all surveys with a final survey status of complete for the evaluation period and were compared on a question-by-question basis to a national performance score calculated from all partnering hospices contained in Deyta Analytics' Hospice CAHPS database.