Residential Home Health and Residential Hospice, Troy, MI-based providers of in-home healthcare and hospice services, are pleased to announce that they have been selected as Detroit Free Press Top Workplace winners for the fourth consecutive year.

The Top Workplaces are determined based solely on employee feedback. The employee survey is conducted by WorkplaceDynamics, LLP, a leading research firm on organizational health and employee engagement. WorkplaceDynamics conducts regional Top Workplaces programs with 37 major publishing partners and recognizes a list of 150 National Top Workplaces. Over the past year, more than 5,000 organizations and one in every 88 employers in the U.S. have turned to WorkplaceDynamics to better understand what’s on the minds of their employees.

With more than 700 employees, Residential Home Health and Residential Hospice are majority-owned by Arlington, VA-based Graham Holdings Company (NYSE: GHC). Among Michigan companies with more than 500 employees, Residential was ranked #8 overall and #1 healthcare employer for the second year in a row.

“We work together to solve problems. We have an encouraging atmosphere with good teamwork. We know we all need each other to do the best job,” explained one Residential employee. Four hundred forty Residential Home Health and Residential Hospice employees responded to the survey to earn Residential this distinction.

“We are honored to be recognized by our Residential colleagues as a Detroit Free Press Top 100 Workplace for the fourth year in a row. As a team, we strive to make Residential a great place to pursue a career and deliver exceptional services to our patients, their families and their physicians,” said Mike Lewis, Residential Home Health and Residential Hospice Chairman and CEO. Residential’s patient- and employee-centric culture revolves around its four core values: respect, collaboration, innovation and empowerment.

About Residential Healthcare Group (www.residentialhomehealth.com)

Residential Home Health has been a leading provider of home nursing and therapy services throughout Michigan since 2001 and in northeastern Illinois since 2009. Based on 2010 claims data, independently verified by Health Market Science, Residential Home Health is the most referred home care agency by hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and physicians in Michigan. Residential has developed a number of innovative, evidence-based clinical programs to reduce avoidable hospital readmissions, particularly for chronically ill geriatric patients, including one of the largest home-based telemonitoring programs in Michigan. Residential Home Health is an ACHC accredited agency and has been named a Detroit Free Press Top 100 Michigan Workplace for the past four years, and has received the coveted HomeCare Elite designation in five of the past eight years.

Residential Hospice provides the full spectrum of hospice care in a variety of settings, including patients’ homes, nursing facilities and hospitals. Residential Hospice is dedicated to providing the exceptional care patients need to maintain their personal dignity, safety and quality of life. Residential Hospice is a CHAP accredited agency, and has been named a Detroit Free Press Top 100 Michigan Workplace for the past two years.

About Graham Holdings Company (www.ghco.com)

Graham Holdings Company (NYSE: GHC) is a diversified education and media company whose principal operations include educational services, television broadcasting, cable systems and online, print and local TV news. Graham Holdings owns Kaplan, a leading global provider of educational services; Graham Media Group (KPRC–Houston, WDIV–Detroit, WKMG–Orlando, KSAT–San Antonio, WJXT–Jacksonville); Cable ONE, serving small-city subscribers in 19 midwestern, western and southern states; The Slate Group (Slate, Slate V, TheRoot); and Foreign Policy. Graham Holdings also owns Trove, a digital team focused on innovation and experimentation with emerging technologies; SocialCode, a leading social marketing solutions company; Celtic Healthcare, a home health/hospice provider based in Pennsylvania; Forney Corporation; and Joyce/Dayton Corp.