Green Hills Community Achieves High Honors

April 06, 2022 | News Releases | Reading Time 2:00 Minutes

APRIL 6, 2022 (AMES, IOWA) – Green Hills Community, a Life Plan Community in Ames has been presented the Harrison Award for providing top-notch resident care and service by Life Care Services (LCS), managing partner of Green Hills. The award is given to a select few communities each year that excel in resident care, show through their deficiency-free annual surveys. Jessica, Green Hills Health Care Administrator, has also been awarded the Eli Pick Facility Leadership Award for 2022, only 3% of communities nationwide met the initial selection criteria.

The Harrison Award was established in 2010 to honor LCS employee Mary Harrison, who worked for the company for over 30 years, and was instrumental in designing and implementing most of the organization’s current health care programs and policies.

The Eli Pick Facility Leadership Award recognizes the Administrator of record who provided such leadership for the entire 2021 calendar year. Eligibility for this award is based on three years of skilled nursing facility (SNF) survey data, including the Health, Fire Safety, and Complaint Surveys, as well as top quartile performance on designated Quality Measures.

“At Green Hills, our goal is to help everyone whose lives we touch – our residents, their families, and guests of our community – to be able to live the life the way they choose. That is why we strive for excellence in quality in every aspect of caring,” said Jessica Walker, health care administrator at Green Hills Community.

Steve Lochray, Director of Nursing at Green Hills Community, believes that the hard work and dedication to the residents is what sets our health care center apart from other communities.

For more information about Green Hills, please call 515-357-5000 or visit www.greenhillsrc.com.