Awards and Accolades

Five-Star Rating, September, 2011

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) created the Five-Star Quality Rating System to help consumers, their families, and caregivers compare nursing homes more easily and to help identify areas about which you may want to ask questions. The quality rating system gives each nursing home a rating of between 1 and 5 stars. Nursing homes with 4 or 5 stars are considered to have “above average” quality.

Deficiency-Free Survey, 2011

Kindred Nursing and Rehabilitation - Blue Hills Alzheimer's received a deficiency-free survey from the Massachusetts Department of Health in 2011.

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.

Bronze – Commitment to Quality Award, 2005

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 Awards, 2010:

• Quality of Food
• Response to Problems

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.

Excellence in End-of-Life Care Award, 2010 and 2005

Blue Hills Alzheimer’s Care Center was honored with the Beacon Hospice’s 2010 Excellence in End-of-Life Care award. We were also presented with this prestigious award in 2005.

Beacon Hospice annually awards nursing centers throughout New England that have demonstrated exceptional end-of-life care. Territory winners are selected by a Beacon Hospice committee, based upon professional teamwork and collaboration with the Beacon staff, sensitivity in approaching communication with patients and their families, promoting ongoing education, and providing access to the hospice benefit.

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.