Creston Specialty Care selected for national quality recognition

Creston Specialty Care has been named to the National Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative (NNHQCC) Honor Roll to recognize its performance on the Nursing Home Compare long-stay quality measures. Nursing homes on the honor roll have achieved a quality measure composite score which is aligned with the top 10% of nursing homes in the United States.

“Nursing homes on the National Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative Honor Roll have demonstrated a focus on safety and quality,” said Deanna Curry, Telligen Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) quality improvement manager. “We applaud the hard work of the staff at Creston Specialty Care and its commitment to its residents and staff to provide excellent long-term care.”

NNHQCC, led by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and QIN-QIOs, launched in April 2015 with the mission to improve care for the 1.4 million nursing home residents across the United States.

NNHQCC strives to instill sustainable quality and performance improvement practices, eliminate health care-acquired conditions and improve resident satisfaction and safety by focusing on the systems that impact quality. These systems can include staffing, operations, communication, leadership, compliance, clinical models, quality of life indicators and specific clinical outcomes such as mobility, inappropriate antipsychotic use for persons living with dementia and health care-associated infections.

Creston Specialty Care is a 72-bed skilled nursing facility offering rehabilitation services, skilled nursing care, long term care and hospice care. Creston Specialty Care is owned and operated by West Des Moines-based Care Initiatives, Iowa’s largest nonprofit skilled nursing care and senior care provider. Care Initiatives and Care Initiatives Hospice operate 58 skilled nursing, rehabilitation, Alzheimer’s/dementia, assisted living and hospice locations throughout Iowa. For more information about Care Initiatives or Creston Specialty Care, call 641-782-8511 or visit careinitiatives.org.