For Immediate Release: Local Contact:
August 1st, 2010 National Contact: Katherine Lehman 202-898-2816
Inglemoor Rehabilitation and Care Center
To Be Honored With National Award
Recognizing Their Significant Achievement In The Delivery Of Quality Care
Livingston, NJ, 08/01/2010 – Inglemoor Rehabilitation and Care Center has been recognized as a 2010 recipient
of the Silver – Achievement in Quality National Quality Award presented by the American Health Care Association and National Center
for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL), a trade organization with approximately 11,000 members nationwide. This year 271 nursing home
and assisted living communities from across the nation applied for the Silver Quality Award and Inglemoor Rehabilitation and
Care Center was one of 38 organizations to receive the award. The award will be formally presented to Inglemoor Rehabilitation
and Care Center during AHCA/NCAL’s 61st Annual Convention and Exposition, October 10-13, 2010 in Long Beach, CA.
“We applaud
the staff and leadership of Inglemoor Rehabilitation and Care Center for demonstrating national distinction in their quest
for performance excellence,” stated Bruce Yarwood, President and CEO of AHCA/NCAL. “Being judged to be worthy of a Silver Quality
Award demonstrates a commitment to a rigorous journey of continuous improvement and a good level of sustainable performance.
Implemented
by AHCA/NCAL in 1996, the National Quality Award Program is based on the core values and criteria of the Malcolm Baldrige National
Quality Award Program. It provides a pathway for providers of long term and post-acute care services to journey towards performance
excellence. Facilities that apply for the Silver Quality Award, formerly known as the Step II Award, must demonstrate very good
performance outcomes that have evolved from sustainable approaches to the core values and concepts of visionary leadership, focus
on the future, resident-focused excellence, management by innovation, and focus on results and creating value. The award is judged
by a Board of highly trained Examiners who come from within and outside of the long term care profession.
Inglemoor Rehabilitation
and Care Center has previously won the Bronze - Commitment to Quality Award and may now move forward to apply for the Gold –
Excellence in Quality Award which requires them to address the Baldrige Program’s Health Care Criteria for Performance Excellence
in its entirety.
The awards are sponsored by AHCA/NCAL Associate Business Member McKesson Medical-Surgical, a leading distributor
of medical supplies and equipment to physician practices, surgery centers, hospitals, home care, and extended care facilities, and
My InnerView, a Web-based applied research and quality-management company that supports leaders across the entire assisted living,
senior housing and skilled nursing profession with tools to measure, benchmark and improve performance.
