Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center among U.S. News & World Report’s 2012 Best Nursing Homes

Jasper – Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center was awarded the highest ranking of five stars overall in U.S. News & World Report’s 2012 Best Nursing Homes, available online at www.usnews.com/nursinghomes. Only about one in eight nursing homes met this standard in all four quarters of 2011.

U.S. News’s Best Nursing Homes profiles more than 15,500 facilities and ranks them by state, using data and quality ratings from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which sets and enforces quality standards for all homes enrolled in Medicare or Medicaid. Nursing homes receive an overall rating of one to five stars from the government based on the number of stars earned in three other categories: health inspections, nurse staffing, and quality of care.

Memorial Hospital’s Skilled Caring Center is a fully independent, short-term, skilled nursing residence that provides 24-hour professional nursing care as well as physical, occupational, speech and respiratory therapy; social services; activities and nutrition services. Cheryl Welp serves as Skilled Caring Center Administrator, and Michelle Wineinger is Director of Nursing. For more information about the Skilled Caring Center, please call 996-0596.