St. Elizabeth's Place To Be Honored

St. Elizabeth’s Place 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 ST. ELIZABETH’S PLACE was one of 38 organizations to receive the award. The award will be formally presented to JUDY DUNMAN, ADMINISTRATOR during AHCA/NCAL’s 61st Annual Exposition, October 10-13, 2010 in Long Beach, CA.

“We applaud the staff and leadership of St. Elizabeth’s Place 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 Baldridge 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.

ST. ELIZABETH’S PLACE 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 Baldridge 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.