{"id":110392,"date":"2021-12-22T16:26:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T21:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=110392"},"modified":"2021-12-22T16:26:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T21:26:29","slug":"gracedale-receives-award-for-good-work-on-quality-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=110392","title":{"rendered":"Gracedale receives award for good work on quality measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lamont McClure and the administrators at Gracedale Nursing Home announce that they have been recognized by AmeriHealth Caritas Pennsylvania Community Health Choices with an additional award of $94,388.49 for their good work on numerous quality measures.<\/p>\n<p>AmeriHealth recognizes Gracedale and other facilities which have continued to deliver high quality care during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. This one-time payment for SNF Quality Enhancement Programs is passed on the facility\u2019s performance on benchmarks related to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Percentage of high-risk long-stay residents with pressure ulcers<\/li>\n<li>Percentage of long-stay residents assessed and appropriately given the pneumococcal vaccine<\/li>\n<li>Percentage of long-stay residents assessed and appropriately given the seasonal influenza vaccine<\/li>\n<li>Percentage of long-stay residents experiencing one or more falls with major injury<\/li>\n<li>Percentage of short-stay residents who were re-hospitalized after a nursing home admission<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank all of Gracedale\u2019s employees for their hard work and dedication over these last two years,\u201d says Lamont McClure. \u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic has been the challenge of our generation and I\u2019m grateful to our staff for rising to the occasion and providing quality care to our residents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nBecky Bartlett<br \/>\nDeputy Director of Administration<br \/>\nNorthampton County Government Center<br \/>\n669 Washington Street<br \/>\nEaston, PA 18042<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/\">https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lamont McClure and the administrators at Gracedale Nursing Home announce that they have been recognized by AmeriHealth Caritas Pennsylvania Community Health Choices with an additional award of $94,388.49 for their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=110392\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gracedale receives award for good work on quality measures<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94949,"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":[69,5738,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-northampton-county","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Gracedale-Nursing.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110392"}],"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=110392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}