The Harrison Award

for Excellence in Quality Care

In honor of the commitment to providing quality health care and services, our management company, Life Care Services, recently announced the creation of a new award of excellence in quality care called The Harrison Award. Sumner on Ridgewood is proud to be one of the recipients of the 1st Annual Harrison Award. We received this award because of the hard work of our outstanding team of health care professionals. We are proud to continue our nearly 100 year heritage of providing excellent care to seniors in Northeast Ohio.

This award has been established to recognize those health center teams that excel in measurable outcomes, as demonstrated by deficiency-free annual surveys. Reaching this level of survey performance puts these communities in an elite group; only 7.6% of all nursing home entities achieved this status nationally in 2009.

2009 Award for Excellence from In-House Hospice

We are pleased to announce that In-House Hospice recently recognized Sumner on Ridgewood with a 2009 Skilled Nursing Facility Award for Excellence.

Our facility was chosen from over a hundred facilities around Ohio for three reasons:

1. Our support and understanding of the importance of collaborative care when a resident is nearing the end of life.
2. Our organizations belief in the importance of good communications amongst our staff and In-House Hospice.
3. Keeping in mind the needs of our residents and the importance of making timely referrals.

"It’s important to recognize these facilities and especially the staff who are looking out for their patients best interests,” said In-House President and CEO Laura A. Wagner.

"The staff we are recognizing understands why it’s important to their patients that they live out their last days in the most painless and peaceful manner. They readily acknowledge when an individual should be put onto hospice care, because they know it’s the right thing to do for the patient and their family. We know it can be a difficult decision to call in hospice, but we also know that it’s respectably the right thing to do for the patient,” she explained.

Here is the letter we received regarding our Award for Excellence.

AIA Design for Aging Review

We were pleased to be notified that Sumner on Ridgewood had been selected to be featured in the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2005 Design for Aging Review. The Design for Aging Review is held in partnership with the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) every two years and is a juried selection recognizing senior living projects that are notable for their innovative design feature and architectural quality. This is quite an honor.

Sumner on Ridgewood was presented in a slide presentation by the jurors at the AAHSA Annual Meeting on November 7, 2005 in San Antonio. A presentation also occurred at the AIA National Convention in Los Angeles, June 8, 2006. A publication of the selected projects, Design for Aging Review, 8th Edition, is a high quality full-color hard cover book that was issued in early 2006.