Life Care Center of Hixson earned accreditation from The Joint Commission, an independent, not-for-profit organization, which evaluates the safety and quality of services provided by more than 20,500 health care organizations across the country.
To earn accreditation, a skilled nursing facility or other entity undergoes an extensive on-site review by a Joint Commission team of professionals such as physicians, nurses and administrators.
The team assesses the facility’s processes, interviews residents and observes associate performance.
Unlike the annual state surveys each skilled nursing and rehab center must undergo, applying for Joint Commission accreditation is voluntary.
“The Joint Commission sets a higher standard, and we choose to undergo this extra evaluation because we set our own expectations at that higher level,” said Doyle Love, executive director. “The accreditation is simply a public result of the work and care that our associates put into serving our residents and outpatients at our center every day.”
The survey took place Nov. 13-14, 2014, and the facility was officially accredited in December. Life Care Center of Hixson opened in 2011, and this was the first year it was eligible for a Joint Commission accreditation survey.
The survey must be completed at least once every three years for the facility to maintain accreditation.
Located at 5798 Hixson Home Place, Life Care Center of Hixson is one of 26 rehab and skilled nursing centers in Tennessee managed or operated by Life Care Centers of America.