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Good Shepherd Nursing Home in Wheeling Again Earns 5-Star Rating

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Good Shepherd Nursing Home staff are credited with the perfect five-star rating bestowed on Good Shepherd by the U.S. Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Representing the staff are, from left, Becky Allen, John Davis, Kylie Livingston, Sally Danhart, John Railing, Marah Johnson, and Mary Means.

WHEELING – Good Shepherd Nursing Home once again has found itself among the top nursing homes in the United States, according to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The CMS awarded Good Shepherd a five-star rating, the only nursing home in the area to achieve that feat. Good Shepherd has earned that rating for all or part of each of the 15 years of the program’s existence.

Welty Corporation CEO Donald Kirsch gave credit for the unprecedented success to Good Shepherd’s staff.

“These accomplishments are the direct result of our well trained and highly professional staff,” he said. “It gives me great pleasure to see our staff so honored for their hard work and dedicated service to our residents. To achieve this level of consistent excellence is a credit to the hard-working women and men of our staff and Board of Directors,” he said.

The CMS created the Five-Star Quality Rating System to help consumers compare nursing homes more easily. The Nursing Home Compare Web site (https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/) enables families to check the ratings of nursing homes they’re considering.

Good Shepherd also has once again received the SHARP Award from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). That award recognizes organizations that have developed outstanding safety and health programs that have resulted in a sustained reduction in workplace injuries. Good Shepherd has held the SHARP Award continuously since 2000.

Good Shepherd’s sister facility, the Welty Home, first earned the SHARP Award in 2013 and has held it continuously since then. Good Shepherd and Welty Home are part of a continuum of care provided by the nonprofit Welty Corporation.

Improved safety and health, a cornerstone of SHARP, have saved the Welty Corporation millions of dollars in Workers’ Compensation premiums, which it has used to increase staff wages and benefits. Good Shepherd’s success story of reducing workplace injuries has been featured on the OSHA Website.

In addition, because of Good Shepherd’s success at reducing workplace injuries, Kirsch was invited to address both the OSHA National Office Staff at the Department of Labor in Washington DC and the annual convention of the 50 State-wide OSHA Administrators in Florida.

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