The home care, home health, and hospice providers families can trust.

Trusted & Transparent™ is Accushield's national recognition program for home care, home health, and hospice providers. It identifies the organizations whose performance in care quality and operational transparency, measured by a proprietary composite score, exceeds the thresholds Accushield has set for recognition. The recognition reflects aggregate operational performance, not individual caregiver certification.

The Trusted & Transparent™ Standard tier recognizes providers meeting the program's core performance threshold across credentialing activity, care quality signals, and operational transparency. The Top-Rated Trusted & Transparent™ tier is reserved for the small group of providers whose sustained performance places them at the top of every category the score evaluates. Both tiers reflect genuinely earned recognition. The Top-Rated tier is the highest honor Accushield confers through this program.

No. Trusted & Transparent™ cannot be purchased, applied for, or sponsored. Every home care, home health, and hospice provider active in the Accushield ecosystem is automatically evaluated against the same composite score, and recognition is conferred solely on the basis of measured operational performance. There is no entry fee, no participation fee, and no marketing or placement upgrade available in exchange for payment.

The score is a proprietary composite developed by Accushield's data science team and applied uniformly across every care provider in our ecosystem. It draws on six independent operational signals: Verified Alliance membership, Google Rating Confidence, visit compliance, CMS quality ratings where applicable to home health and hospice agencies, Accushield Care Ratings captured at the point of care, and continuity of care. Each signal is weighted according to its reliability and relevance to care quality, and the final score reflects sustained performance across the measured period rather than any single moment in time. The methodology is maintained independently of any provider's commercial relationship with Accushield.

Yes. Recognized providers are granted a limited license to display the official Trusted & Transparent™ badge for the applicable recognition period. The badge may appear on your website, in email signatures, in proposal decks, in social media content, and in printed marketing materials. The badge must be used in its original form and in a manner consistent with the recognition conferred. Use of the badge is governed by the program's Terms of Use.

Recipients may describe themselves as a "2026 Trusted & Transparent™ recipient" or, for Top-Rated honorees, a "2026 Top-Rated Trusted & Transparent™ recipient." Please include the trademark symbol on first use and credit "the Trusted & Transparent™ program by Accushield" when the context benefits from attribution. The full media kit, including the launch press release, approved boilerplate, badges, and embed codes, is available at mediakit.trustedandtransparent.com.

The Trusted & Transparent™ recognition tells families that an independent program evaluated this provider against operational signals including credential verification activity, visit compliance, care ratings captured at the point of care, and continuity of care, and that the provider's performance exceeded the thresholds for recognition. Families should know that the recognition reflects organizational performance and does not substitute for their own due diligence when choosing care.

No. The Trusted & Transparent™ recognition reflects aggregate organizational performance across the Accushield ecosystem. It does not certify that every individual care professional employed by a recognized provider has submitted credentials to Accushield or been verified by Accushield. Recognized providers remain solely responsible for the conduct, credentials, and performance of their employees and contractors. Families should continue to conduct their own due diligence when choosing a care provider.

The 2026 Trusted & Transparent™ recognition is valid through the 2027 recognition cycle, at which point the composite score is recalculated and the next inaugural class is announced. Accushield reserves the right to revoke recognition during the recognition period if a provider's operational performance falls below program thresholds or if the provider is found to be misusing the recognition.

Every home care, home health, and hospice provider active in the Accushield ecosystem is automatically evaluated against the Trusted & Transparent™ composite score. Qualification is earned through sustained performance across the measured signals, not through a separate application process. Joining the Verified Alliance is the first step toward recognition. Reach out to our team to learn how your organization can begin building the performance record that leads to recognition.

Senior living operators who partner with Accushield see Trusted & Transparent™ status surfaced throughout the tools their teams use every day, including provider dashboards, credentialing lookups, and the public directory at trustedandtransparent.com. Accushield also distributes the recognized provider list through its co-marketing channels and partner communications so operators can easily identify Trusted & Transparent™ agencies when evaluating referral partners or responding to family questions about who comes through their doors.

Program questions, badge support, and press inquiries can be directed to the Accushield marketing team at [email protected]. For questions about qualifying for recognition or joining the Verified Alliance, contact the Accushield sales team at [email protected].