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AHCA/NCAL Announces 2021 Silver National Quality Award Recipients, Including Two Oregon Communities

Today, the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) announced the 64 long term and post-acute care providers in 28 states that have earned the 2021 Silver – Achievement in Quality Award. The award is the second of three distinctions possible through the AHCA/NCAL National Quality Award Program, which recognizes providers across the nation that have demonstrated their commitment to improving quality of care in long term and post-acute care. Two Oregon communities received this award:

• Avamere Rehabilitation of Eugene
• French Prairie Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

A full list of Silver Award recipients is available on the AHCA/NCAL Quality Award website here.

The National Quality Award Program is a rigorous three-level process that is reviewed and judged by trained experts against a set of nationally recognized standards for organizational excellence. The standards of the National Baldrige Performance Excellence Program help organizations achieve superior performance to improve quality of life and care of long term care residents and staff. At the Silver level, members develop and demonstrate effective approaches that help improve organizational performance and health care outcomes.

Recipients of the Silver award can now advance in further developing comprehensive approaches that meet the criteria required for the Gold – Excellence in Quality Award.