EHM Senior Solutions is the proud recipient of three 2024 Governor’s Awards of Excellence. The organization’s skilled nursing facility, Evangelical Home – Saline earned prestigious recognition for Opioid-Related Adverse Drug Events and Infection Control and Prevention Training Completion. Shared Services Home Health Care, the non-profit’s Medicare-certified home health care agency, received an award for its work on All-Cause 30-day Readmissions.
These distinguished awards were offered through a collaboration between Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, iMPROve Health and the Michigan Health & Hospital Association (MHA) Keystone Center.
“We are so proud of the work our clinical leaders and their teams have done to achieve these awards, an endeavor spanning over two years,” said Julia Wellings, Interim President and CEO. “We are honored to receive these Governor’s Awards of Excellence. Our efforts have resulted in better outcomes for our patients; this is work we do continuously behind the scenes every day.”
The award criteria were aligned with the healthcare objectives of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Enrolled organizations could win the Governor’s Award in up to three distinct categories and could receive Medals of Achievement by demonstrating the incorporation of Person and Family and/or Health Equity
strategies to drive improvement.
The following healthcare organizations were invited to participate:
- Community Coalitions
- Critical Access Hospitals
- Home Health Agencies
- Hospitals
- Nursing Homes
- Physician Offices
The Governor’s Award of Excellence initiative started in 2003 in partnership with iMPROve Health and Gov. Engler. The award recognizes health care providers that focus on improving some of Michigan’s most pressing health issues.
About EHM Senior Solutions
EHM Senior Solutions, a respected non-profit senior services provider since 1879, offers the most comprehensive senior health services to Washtenaw county residents and beyond.
The beautiful Brecon Village senior living campus offers independent and assisted living, memory support, respite care and adult day programs, while Evangelical Home – Saline provides long-term nursing care and post-acute rehabilitation therapies.
The Redies Outpatient Center provides physical rehabilitation therapies, and Shared Services Home Health Care and Shared Care Services offer in-home care. Choose Life Choices® for future in-home care planning, and Life Choice Solutions for personal training, massage and handyman services.
About iMPROve Health
iMPROve Health is Michigan’s designated Quality Improvement Organization. As a nonprofit organization, we have 40 years of experience improving healthcare across the continuum of care using evidence-based and data-driven logic. We also have experience completing thoughtful and impartial utilization review, dispute resolution and peer reviews.
Our multidisciplinary staff is composed of physicians, registered nurses, data analysts, quality consultants and health information technology experts. Our reach extends throughout the country.
Since 2002, iMPROve Health has maintained URAC accreditation as an Independent Review Organization: Comprehensive Review.
About MHA Keystone Center
All Michigan hospitals and thousands of their team members are voluntarily participating in MHA programs to improve the safety and quality of healthcare. A growing number of hospitals in other states are now part of the MHA-lead patient safety and quality initiatives.
As a result of these initiatives, which are driven by evidence-based, best practices, and strongly supported by data, engaged hospitals are seeing great improvements in safety and quality outcomes. The MHA Keystone Center’s mission, vision, and values are an essential part of the work being done, and demonstrate their engagement to improving Michigan hospitals.