Lenbrook Earns Medicare Certification


Nationally accredited CCRC meets additional 150 federal quality and safety standards

Lenbrook, the first and only continuing care retirement community in Atlanta to earn national accreditation, has now also earned Medicare certification for its skilled nursing and rehabilitation health center. A leader in senior living in Atlanta for three decades, Lenbrook’s newly expanded campus offers 358 private residences for independent living plus 16 personal care suites and 60 skilled nursing private and semi-private rooms to serve the full range of health care needs.

“Once our expansion was complete and with national accreditation already in hand, becoming Medicare certified was the next step for us in affirming Lenbrook’s excellence in health care services,” said Becky Webster, President and Chief Executive Officer of Lenbrook. “We are extremely proud to achieve this significant benchmark and tangible demonstration of our commitment to providing the highest quality of care,” said Webster, a seasoned veteran of the healthcare industry and former chief operating officer of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

  The management, staff and employees of Lenbrook undertook an 18-month-long process of documenting and demonstrating it meets the 150 specific standards set forth by Medicare for quality and safety. It then successfully passed a rigorous and thorough 4-day onsite inspection survey conducted by three professionals, earning exemplary ratings across the board. In fact, Lenbrook’s inspection survey compliance and performance scores placed it in the top percentile of the nation’s Medicare-certified facilities.

 

Lenbrook became the first continuing care retirement community in Atlanta to earn national accreditation from the Commission for Accreditation of Rehabilitative Facilities and Continuing Care Accreditation Commission in 1992, and has earned re-accreditation every five years since. Only about 10 percent of the nation’s 2,000 CCRCs have earned the coveted CARF-CCAC distinction which requires meeting nearly 800 standards for excellence in all aspects of service including: resident life and services, resident health and wellness, fiscal responsibility, and governance and administration.

Lenbrook’s skilled nursing and rehabilitation health center is also one of just a few facilities to earn Medicare certification in Georgia in recent years. In doing so, it allows Lenbrook residents needing authorized, short-term skilled nursing and rehabilitation services to draw upon their Medicare benefits to help cover costs. In addition, because Lenbrook also accepts local residents into its health center as space permits, these residents may also draw upon their Medicare benefit for authorized services at Lenbrook.

Similar to maintaining its accreditation standing, Lenbrook will provide regular reports to the Center for Medicare and Medicade Services as well as open its facility to periodic reviews and annual inspections by the Center’s professional staff.

“We welcome these opportunities for outside professional review because we hold uncompromisingly high standards for ourselves,” Webster said. “We are a not-for-profit organization founded to serve and enhance the lives of our residents through greater independence, good health and personal fulfillment. Our mission requires excellence in all that we do.”