{"id":104431,"date":"2020-12-15T16:57:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T21:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=104431"},"modified":"2020-12-15T16:57:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T21:57:06","slug":"u-s-news-world-report-ranks-good-shepherd-home-bethlehem-as-a-best-nursing-home-for-2020-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=104431","title":{"rendered":"U.S. News &#038; World Report Ranks Good Shepherd Home \u2013 Bethlehem As A Best Nursing Home for 2020-2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Good Shepherd Home \u2013 Bethlehem has been named a Best Nursing Home in\u00a0<em>U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/em>\u2019s 2020-2021 rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Using publicly available federal data from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicare.gov\/nursinghomecompare\/search.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS<\/a>)\u00a0Nursing Home Compare website,\u00a0<em>U.S. News<\/em>\u00a0evaluated more than 15,000 nursing homes nationwide. Of the 13,443 nursing homes receiving a Long-Term Care\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/info\/blogs\/press-room\/articles\/2020-10-27\/us-news-names-best-nursing-homes-for-2020-21\">rating<\/a>, only 1,139 nationwide (or 15 percent) ranked as High-Performing \u2014 including Good Shepherd Home \u2013 Bethlehem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud of all our staff members for their work and dedication and sincerely congratulate them for ensuring Good Shepherd Home \u2013 Bethlehem delivers a high standard of compassionate and quality care to our residents,\u201d said Carrie Kane, MS, CCC-SLP\/L, NHA, administrator of Good Shepherd Home \u2013 Bethlehem.<\/p>\n<p>The 60-bed facility located at 2855 Schoenersville Road, is part of Allentown-based Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network, which has provided long-term care for people with severe neurological and physical disabilities since its founding in 1908.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike traditional nursing homes, Good Shepherd\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodshepherdrehab.org\/for-patients-and-visitors\/levels-of-care\/#long-term\">long-term care facilities<\/a>\u00a0are home to residents with severe disabilities, such as multiple sclerosis, brain injuries, cerebral palsy, spinal cord injuries and muscular dystrophy and who require 24\/7 nursing care.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodshepherdrehab.org\/about-good-shepherd\/our-history\/\"><strong>Learn more<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0about Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provide to TVL by:<br \/>\nMike Walbert<br \/>\nMarketing &#038; Communications Specialist<br \/>\nGood Shepherd Rehabilitation Network<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Good Shepherd Home \u2013 Bethlehem has been named a Best Nursing Home in\u00a0U.S. News &amp; World Report\u2019s 2020-2021 rankings. Using publicly available federal data from the\u00a0Centers for Medicare &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=104431\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. News &#038; World Report Ranks Good Shepherd Home \u2013 Bethlehem As A Best Nursing Home for 2020-2021<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/good-shepherd.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}