Everything Under The Sun: The FutureCare Difference

Thursday, September 24, 2015

The FutureCare Difference

One of the rooms in newly opened FutureCare Cold Spring.

There are quite a number of nursing care and rehabilitation centers within the Baltimore area. Whether their clientele are there to complete rehabilitation after hospital care or for long-term care, these nursing care centers perform a needed service.

FUTURECARE operates a number of facilities throughout the Baltimore-DC area and has eleven centers in Baltimore City and County alone. They are known in the area for providing an excellent work environment for employees - and that then extends into the care that employees provide for those who utilize its services.

One way that quality health care has been measured in recent years is through monitoring hospital readmission rates. The lower the rate, the better quality of care. Federal payments to providers are being re-gauged to allow higher payments to receiving facilities that can lower readmission rates.

So, it is with understandable pride that six of FutureCare's facilities were recognized for their low readmission rates to hospitals: FutureCare Cherrywood, FutureCare Chesapeake, FutureCare Irvington, FutureCare Northpoint, FutureCare Old Court, and FutureCare Pinewood. The award comes from Providigm, a company that offers its expertise in improving quality of care at nursing centers, and is called the PROVIDIGM EMBRACING QUALITY AWARDS.

Upon receiving the awards recognition, Gary Attman, FutureCare's President, remarked, "Winning this prestigious award again this year is a testament to the care, compassion and commitment that every member of our FutureCare family brings to their job every single day. At FutureCare, we like to say we are 'neighbors caring for neighbors'. This award means we are doing that, and more."

The six recognized facility received their awards at AHCA/NCAL's annual Quality Symposium, held in Austin, TX on Feb. 24, 2015. In order to be eligible for the awards, the facilities have to have achieved Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement Accreditation from Providigm. Those that do so are among the highest performing long term care centers in the US and Canada.

FutureCare Old Court decorated to root for the Orioles.

At the awards ceremony, Provodigm's Accreditation Program Director, Barbara Baylis, said, "[T]he facilities announced tonight will undoubtedly serve as role models for their peers in long term health care." That's some outstanding quality in a part of the country that is noted for its health care innovations.