Awards and Accolades

Four-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.

Silver – Achievement in Quality Award, 2011

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) Silver – Achievement in 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 Silver award recognizes that the center is dedicated to performance measures, sustainable organizational and process results, and continuous quality and performance improvement. Once achieved, the designation is permanent.

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.

 BREWER REHABILITATION EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR RECEIVES FACILITY LEADERSHIP AWARD

Brewer, Maine (August 31, 2011) – Brewer Rehabilitation and Living Center Executive Director Janet Hope was recently honored by the American College of Health Care Administrators (ACHCA) with the 2011 American College of Health Care Administrator’s Facility Leadership Award.

The ACHCA annual award recognizes administrators of nursing homes who have met superior health care standards. Selection of those receiving the award was based on reported skilled nursing facility resident data from the MDS that reflects the care and services provided. In addition to meeting stringent patient care and life safety code standards, recipient’s organizations must have an average occupancy above 90 percent, and the same administrator must have filled the role throughout the award year.

The American College of Health Care Administrators (ACHCA) is the only professional association devoted solely to meeting the professional needs of today's long-term care administrator and executive. ACHCA’s mission focuses on advancing leadership excellence in long term care through the provision of leadership education, promotion of professional advancement programs such as Fellowship and professional Certification, and facilitation of leadership development.

“I am honored to receive this recognition,” Hope said. “We have a great team at Brewer and I want to thank my staff for doing such a great job taking care of our residents.”

Brewer Rehabilitation and Living Center is an 111-bed nursing and rehabilitation center that offers a full range of nursing and medical care, including short-term rehabilitative services and long-term skilled care. 

Brewer Rehabilitation and Living Center is part of Kindred Healthcare, Inc., a top-150 private employer in the United States and a healthcare services company based in Louisville, Kentucky with annual revenues of $6 billion and approximately 76,300 employees in 46 states. At June 30, 2011, Kindred through its subsidiaries provided healthcare services in over 2,200 locations, including 120 long-term acute care hospitals, five inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, 224 nursing and rehabilitation centers, 22 sub-acute units, 20 hospice and home care locations, 104 inpatient rehabilitation units (hospital-based) and a contract rehabilitation services business, RehabCare, which served approximately 1,760 non-affiliated facilities. Ranked as one of Fortune magazine’s Most Admired Healthcare Companies for three years in a row, Kindred’s mission is to promote healing, provide hope, preserve dignity and produce value for each patient, resident, family member, customer, employee and shareholder we serve. For more information, go to www.brewerrehab.com.

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.


Kindred Healthcare’s Nursing Center Division honored our Executive Director, Janet Hope, 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.

Kindred Healthcare’s Nursing Center Division honored our Medical Director, Dr. Lawrence Smith, with the Medical Director Distinguished Service Award.

The Distinguished Service Award is given in recognition of a career dedicated to long-term care and is for outstanding and meritorious service to a Kindred Nursing Center.  It is the highest honor given to our Medical Directors.

Brewer Rehab received a deficiency-free survey from the 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.

The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities Accredited Brain Injury Program, Through September 2011
The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) is an internationally recognized, not-for-profit accreditation authority, promoting and advocating quality rehabilitation services. Programs that receive CARF accreditation have successfully met international service standards and have undergone an independent, external review based on objective expectations and guidelines common to all CARF programs.

For more information about CARF, visit their site.

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.