Awards and Accolades

Bronze – Commitment to Quality Award, 2006

Our efforts received national recognition when this center was named the recipient of an American Health Care Association (AHCA)/National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) Bronze – Commitment to Quality Award.

The AHCA/NCAL Quality Award is modeled after criteria from the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, the nation’s premier recognition for quality achievement.

The Bronze award recognizes that the center has made a commitment to continuous quality and performance improvement. Once achieved, the designation is permanent.

Best in Class – Overall Safety Award, 2010

Pinnacle Quality Insight is an independent customer satisfaction firm serving more than 1,100 health care providers in 45 states. The Best in Class awards are given to nursing centers scoring in the top 10% for specific areas of quality service. Centers are ranked based upon monthly patient, resident, and family survey results, as well as side-by-side comparisons with similar nursing centers across the nation.

Deficiency-Free Survey, 2010

Country Rehabilitation and Nursing Center received a deficiency-free survey from the Massachusetts Department of Health in 2010.

Each state conducts onsite inspections that determine whether its nursing homes meet the minimum Medicare and Medicaid quality and performance standards. The State conducts inspections of each nursing home that participates in Medicare and/or Medicaid about once a year. During the nursing home inspection, the State looks at many aspects of quality. The inspection team consists of trained inspectors, including at least one registered nurse.

Executive Director of the Year, 2009

Kindred Healthcare honored our Executive Director, Stephen Doyle, with the Executive Director of the Year award in 2009.

Each year, Kindred recognizes an Executive Director as a recipient of the Executive Director of the Year award. The winner is chosen by the Executive Vice President and President of the Nursing Center Division based on the individual’s excellent leadership in achieving high resident and employee satisfaction, quality outcomes, and other performance measures.

The Joint Commission Accredited, 2006

Country Rehabilitation and Nursing Center is accredited by The Joint Commission. The Joint Commission is a private, not for profit organization established in 1951 to evaluate healthcare organizations that voluntarily seek accreditation.

A Fortune Magazine Most Admired Company, 2009, 2010 and 2011
Kindred Healthcare, our center’s parent company, has been a Fortune magazine Most Admired Healthcare Company for the last three years.  The Most Admired list is the definitive report card on corporate reputations.  Fortune magazine ranks companies within industries, based on nine different “attributes of reputation.”  To create the industry rankings, surveys were sent to over 4,000 executives, directors, and analysts to select the 10 companies they admired most.