Legacy Living and Rehabilitation Center Earns Nursing Home Quality Award

Press Release — The Legacy Living and Rehabilitation Center was one of ten Wyoming nursing homes to meet the qualifications of the Recognition of Quality Achievement Award. The award, presented by Mountain-Pacific Quality Health, recognizes nursing homes for outstanding performance in effectively using quality assurance performance improvement methodologies to improve care practices.

Awardees are required to be in good standing with Wyoming’s regulatory agency for licensing and certification, the Office of Healthcare Licensing and Survey, and must demonstrate quality improvement successes. This award, presented during the Wyoming Quality Health Care Conference, also recognized The Legacy Living and Rehabilitation Center for strong leadership support for providing quality care

“The Legacy Living and Rehabilitation Center works diligently to improve the quality of care we provide to our residents,” said Jonnie Belden, Vice President of Continuing Health Services.  “The leadership team at The Legacy, regardless of the department, relentlessly pursues our quality measures through rounding, staff education, coaching and evidence based practice.  I am excited to see the outcomes demonstrate even greater improvement in the next year to come.  Our priority is always resident wellbeing and quality of life.  Thank you Mountain Pacific for recognizing our efforts to provide Excellence Every Day to our residents and families”.

For more information about The Legacy Living and Rehabilitation Center quality improvement efforts or about this award, contact Jonni Belden, Vice President of Continuing Health Services at 307-688-7000 or visit www.legacywyo.org.

Mountain-Pacific is designated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as the Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization for Wyoming.

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