AHCA/NCAL National Quality Award Program

Committed to Quality

The AHCA/NCAL National Quality Award Program honors long-term and post-acute care providers that have demonstrated their commitment to improving the quality of care for seniors and individuals with disabilities. Click here to read Quality Award stories.

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2024 Silver Award Recipients

Silver—Achievement in Quality Award recipients provide an extensive assessment of their systematic approaches, performance measures, and sustainable organizational and process results that are linked to the key customer requirements, success factors, and challenges previously identified through the achievement of earning the Bronze—Commitment to Quality Award.

Congratulations to the following 2024 Silver Award Recipients:

  • Good Samaritan Society – Le Mars
  • Sibley Specialty Care
  • Silvercrest Garner Farms (Davenport)
  • Sunrise Terrace Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (Winfield)

The AHCA/NCAL National Quality Award Program is a progressive, three-step process that encourages the continuous learning, development, and execution of integrated quality systems to achieve performance excellence. Each progressive step requires a more detailed and comprehensive demonstration of quality integration and performance. The criteria for each step are based on the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program.

2024 Bronze Award Recipients

Bronze—Commitment to Quality Award recipients are able to describe their mission, characteristics, and key challenges and recognize the relationship of these factors to their ability to achieve performance improvement. The Bronze Award recognizes the provider for developing a foundation to begin a journey of continuous quality improvement and does not necessarily correspond to any public measure of performance.

Congratulations to the following 2024 Bronze Award Recipients:

  • Accura HealthCare of Aurelia
  • Accura HealthCare of Bancroft
  • Accura HealthCare of Cascade
  • Accura HealthCare of Cherokee
  • Accura HealthCare of Milford
  • Accura HealthCare of Ogden
  • Accura HealthCare of Pomeroy
  • Amelia Senior Living (Council Bluffs)
  • Black Hawk Life Care (Lake View)
  • Deerfield Retirement Community (Urbandale)
  • Eagle Point Health Care Center (Clinton)
  • Edgewood Convalescent Home and Lincolnwood Assisted Living
  • Eiler Senior Living (Clarinda)
  • Eldora Specialty Care
  • Ennoble Nursing and Rehabilitation (Dubuque)
  • Floyd Senior Living (Sergeant Bluff)
  • Glen Haven Village (Glenwood)
  • Good Samaritan Society – Holstein
  • Greenfield Rehabilitation and Health Care Center
  • Jackson Ridge Healthcare Center (Maquoketa)
  • Luther Park Community (Des Moines)
  • Maquoketa Care Center
  • Mechanicsville Specialty Care
  • Midlands Living Center (Council Bluffs)
  • Norwalk Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
  • Pinnacle Specialty Care (Cedar Falls)
  • Prairie View Home Inn (Sanborn)
  • Quartet Senior Living (Bettendorf)
  • Rolling Meadows Senior Living (Carroll)
  • Southridge Specialty Care (Marshalltown)
  • State Center Specialty Care
  • The Bridges at Ankeny
  • The Heritage at Northern Hills (Sioux City)
  • University Park Nursing and Rehab (Des Moines)

The AHCA/NCAL National Quality Award Program is a progressive, three-step process that encourages the continuous learning, development, and execution of integrated quality systems to achieve performance excellence. Each progressive step requires a more detailed and comprehensive demonstration of quality integration and performance. The criteria for each step are based on the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program.

All Active Iowa National Quality Award Recipients

Iowa Gold Award Recipient

Year Facility City Type
2017 The Alverno Health Care Facility Clinton SNF

Iowa Silver Award Recipients

Year Facility City Type
2023 LaPorte City Specialty Care La Porte City SNF
2023 West Ridge Care Center Cedar Rapids SNF
2022 Creston Specialty Care Creston SNF
2022 Pleasant View Care Center Whiting SNF AL
2021 Spurgeon Manor Dallas Center SNF
2019 Fountains Senior Living Bettendorf AL
2019 Silvercrest at Woodlands Creek Clive AL
2018 Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center – Klein Center West Burlington SNF
2018 Sunrise Terrace Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Winfield SNF

Iowa Bronze Award Recipients

Year Facility City Type
2023 Bedford Specialty Care Bedford SNF
2023 Belle Plaine Specialty Care Belle Plaine SNF
2023 Crestview Specialty Care West Branch SNF
2023 Good Samaritan Society – Le Mars Le Mars SNF
2023 Lutheran Living Muscatine AL
2023 Montezuma Specialty Care Montezuma SNF
2023 Northcrest Speciality Care Waterloo SNF
2023 Sibley Specialty Care Sibley SNF
2023 Stirlingshire of Coralville Coralville AL
2023 Westview Acres Leon SNF
2022 Corydon Specialty Care Corydon SNF
2022 Fonda Specialty Care Fonda SNF
2022 Panora Specialty Care Panora SNF
2022 Wapello Specialty Care Wapello SNF
2022 Windmill Manor Coralville SNF
2021 Garden View Carroll AL
2021 Gardens Assisted Living Jefferson Jefferson AL
2021 Harmony Dubuque Dubuque SNF
2021 Spurgeon Manor Dallas Center AL
2020 Good Samaritan Society – Algona Algona SNF
2019 Accura HealthCare of Shellrock Shell Rock SNF AL
2019 Good Samaritan Society – Villisca Villisca SNF
2019 Lamoni Specialty Care Lamoni SNF
2019 Legacy Pointe Iowa City AL
2019 Silvercrest Garner Farms Davenport AL
2017 Avoca Lodge A/L Avoca AL
2017 Good Samaritan Society – Manson Manson SNF
2017 Good Samaritan Society – Ottumwa Ottumwa AL
2012 Good Samaritan Society – Waukon Waukon SNF

This list of active Iowa recipients is current as of September 2023.

What is the AHCA/NCAL National Quality Award Program?

About the National Quality Award Program

The National Quality Award Program is made up of three levels – Bronze, Silver and Gold – that are reviewed and judged by trained experts against a set of nationally recognized standards for organizational excellence. The Silver Award is the second of three distinctions possible through the AHCA/NCAL National Quality Award Program. At the Silver level, members develop and demonstrate effective approaches that help improve organizational performance and health care outcomes. Silver recipients may move forward in developing approaches and achieving performance levels that meet the criteria required for the AHCA/NCAL Gold Excellence in Quality Award.

The awards program is based on the core values and criteria of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, which also serves as the foundation for the metric-based AHCA/NCAL Quality Initiative. The Baldrige framework helps organizations among different business sectors improve organizational effectiveness and achieve strategy-driven performance.

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