Commitment to Care
Our Facility is honored to have been named an AHCA Bronze Award winner for 2011.
The AHCA/NCAL National Quality Award Program provides a pathway for providers of long term care services to journey towards performance excellence. The program is based on the core values and criteria of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program.
Bronze – Commitment to Quality applicants begin their quality journey by developing an organizational profile including vision and mission statements, an awareness of their environment and customers’ expectations, and a demonstration of their ability to improve a process.
Our own Annie Evans recipient of the NCHCFA Fabulous Fifty District II Award.
Westwood Hills’ past honorees are: Joyce Watkins in 2010, Ellen Wingler in 2011, Pat Staley in 2012 and Sherry Welborn in 2013, Tiffany Johnson is a 2014 .
Janice Somers, our Administrator, is a Preceptor for the Administrator in Training program. This is a statewide program from the North Carolina Board of Nursing Home Administrators.
Lisa Bare, our Director of Nursing, is the chairman of the NC Board of Medication Aides. She and the Assistant DON, Debbie Childress, are certified med aide instructors. Debbie is also a CPR instructor and teaches all of our CPR classes.