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.

America’s Best Nursing Homes, 2011

U.S. News and World Reports annually recognizes nursing centers that have received the highest-rankings from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Nursing centers are rated on measures of care, nurse staffing and health inspections.

Deficiency-Free Surveys, 2010 and 2011
Kindred Nursing and Rehabilitation - Brigham received deficiency-free surveys from the Massachusetts Department of Health in both 2010 and 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, 2008

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.

Excellence in Action Award, 2006 (C), 2008 (C), and 2010 (C)

My InnerView recognizes nursing homes for outstanding customer and employee satisfaction. The annual Excellence in Action award highlights facilities that scored “excellent” when asked about recommending a facility for care (residents and families) or as a place to work (employees). This honor recognizes nursing homes that achieve the highest levels of satisfaction excellence, as demonstrated by overall customer (C) or workforce satisfaction (W) scores that fall within the top 10 percent of My InnerView’s database - the largest skilled nursing facility database of its kind in the U.S.

Best in Class – Quality of Food 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.

Member, Newburyport Chamber of Commerce

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.