Professional Healthcare Is Recognized as One of the Top Homecare Providers in the Nation for the Fourth Year in a Row

ANNANDALE, Va.--(Business Wire)--
Professional Healthcare Resources, one of the largest home care, and hospice
agencies in Virginia, Washington DC, and Maryland, has again been named to the
HomeCare Elite list of the top home care agencies in the United States.

The 2009 list was announced in October 2009 at the National Association for
Homecare & Hospice annual meeting held in Los Angeles, California. The annual
selection is made by Outcomes Concepts Systems, Inc (OCS), a Seattle, WA based
healthcare information company, and DecisionHealth, a Rockville, MD based
healthcare publisher.

The selecting organizations rank the agencies through analysis of quality
outcomes, quality improvement and financial performance using Medicare data.

The list identifies the Top 25%, Top 500, and Top 100 agencies out of more than
8,000 agencies nationwide. Our Washington, DC and Bethesda, MD branches both
were listed in the 2009 Top 500. The Washington, DC branch has been consistently
chosen for either the Top 100 or Top 500 since the HomeCare Elite list`s
inception in 2006. Other Professional Healthcare branches in the 2009 Top 25%
were Annandale, VA, Lanham, MD, Richmond, VA, and Norfolk, VA.

"The 2009 HomeCare Elitewinners demonstrate a commitment to providing their
patients with the best possible care while performing at the highest level,"
said Nancy Buller, Senior Director of Marketing Communications at OCS HomeCare.
"We congratulate Professional Healthcare Resources on being one of the top home
care agencies in the country."

Ron DeCesare, CEO of Professional Healthcare, remarked, "This is the fourth year
in a row that at least three-quarters of Professional Healthcare`s branches have
made it into the HomeCare Elite. I am proud to lead a team that exemplifies the
best quality in healthcare today for our patients."

About Professional Healthcare Resources, Inc.

Professional Healthcare is the largest independent home care firm in the
Washington, DC metropolitan area. Founded in 1994, we provide home health care,
hospice, and private duty personal care services to over 1,500 patients each
day. The company is headquartered in Annandale, Virginia, and operates eight
branches throughout the tri-state area: four in Virginia (Annandale, Norfolk,
Richmond, and Roanoke), three in Maryland (Baltimore, Bethesda, and Lanham) and
one in Washington, DC. Our mission is "To provide high quality home healthcare
and hospice services to more people.". For more information, visit our website
at www.phri.com.

About OCS

OCS is the market leader in healthcare information solutions. By collecting,
evaluating and interpreting healthcare information, we empower leaders with
data-driven insight that helps optimize mission-critical decision making. OCS
combines the richness of the nation`s most comprehensive post-acute data
warehouse with cutting-edge analysis tools, consulting services and custom
technology solutions. Our information-based solutions facilitate providers,
payers, industry analysts, consultants, Federal and state governments, medical
products and pharmaceutical companies with advancing their missions using
objective, independent information that is not available from other sources.
Learn more at www.ocsys.com or call 888.325.3396.

About DecisionHealth

DecisionHealth serves the clinical, business and regulatory needs of health care
practitioners,providers and their administrative staff nationwide, including
home health agencies. For morethan 20 years, DecisionHealth has served as the
industry's leading source for news, analysisand instructional guidance with
brand names such as Home Health Line, Home CareOutcomes, the Complete Home
Health ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Coding Manual, Private DutyInsider and Diagnosis
Coding Pro for Home Health. Our unique blend of award-winninginformation
specialists, in-house journalists and unmatched access to health care
executives,providers and their staffs results in news, analysis and solutions
that have captured the attentionof nearly 100,000 healthcare readers. For more
information, please visitwww.DecisionHealth.com or call 877.602.3835.

Professional Healthcare Resources
Justin Ivatts, 703-752-8735
jivatts@phri.com

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