McCormick Home receives ‘exemplary’ accreditation standing
London home with 25 years of accreditation receives upgrade to 2011 survey
Wednesday February 29, 2012 -- Deron Hamel
The team at McCormick Home has cause for celebration after Accreditation Canada recently granted the London long-term care home “exemplary standing” in its accreditation status.

McCormick Home has been accredited for more than 25 years, and a recent move by Accreditation Canada to revise its award decisions resulted in the independent, not-for-profit home receiving the exemplary award for its April 2011 three-year accreditation.

McCormick Home CEO Steven Crawford received notification of the upgraded standing last week in a letter from Accreditation Canada’s accreditation decision committee chair Suzanne Larocque.

If an organization receives accreditation from Accreditation Canada, there are three possible standings: accredited, accredited with commendation and exemplary standing.

“Exemplary standing means that, according to the national set of standards that you’re measured against, your care to your residents goes above and beyond the standard,” administrator Terri Guzyk tells the Morning Report.

Guzyk, who has been McCormick Home’s administrator for more than 20 years, says some of the home’s strengths that were highlighted in Accreditation Canada’s report were its outstanding resident care, the home’s warm atmosphere and the fact McCormick Home is highly regarded in the community.

These factors, she adds, “stand out when anybody walks through our doors.”

“We’re very friendly, we’re family focused and we’re resident focused,” says Guzyk.

Accreditation is important to McCormick Home, and Guzyk notes the home’s quality management committee is constantly looking at ways to improve quality and to keep care benchmarks above national standards.

Accreditation Canada is an independent accrediting body providing health-care organizations “with an external peer review process to assess and improve the services they provide to their patients and clients based on standards of excellence,” according to its website.

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