VISTA, CA, October 9, 2008 – The Ensign Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENSG) has announced that Vista Knoll Specialized Care has won the prestigious Ensign Flag award.
The award represents unparalleled excellence sustained over the course of the past year including, but not limited to, outstanding clinical performance, rehab services, safety, and financial performance.
“Obviously, we’re thrilled to have won this very prestigious award. Our staff works incredibly hard to ensure we provide the absolute highest level of care possible, so this is award serves as tremendous recognition and reinforcement of all their efforts,” says Ron Cook, Executive Director.
“Vista Knoll has embodied all the characteristics we look for when awarding a facility for excellence. It is a true testament to the pride taken in the incredible aesthetic beauty of the facility and its grounds. And most importantly it is recognition to the wonderful staff who has worked with unrelenting passion and diligence to ensure the care and rehabilitation services offered to their patients is second to none,” Ensign’s CEO Christopher R. Christensen said.
Vista Knoll, aside from capturing the prestigious Ensign Flag for proficiency in a variety of categories, is also in the final stages of a major renovation to its facility. “With the substantial monetary investment made in renovating our facility it is more beautiful than ever. We couldn’t be more excited about our future and the opportunity to deliver unprecedented quality of care to every patient that comes to Vista Knoll for his or her rehabilitation needs,” says Cook.
About Vista Knoll Specialized Care
Vista Knoll Specialized Care is a 120 bed skilled nursing facility located at 2000 Westwood Road in Vista, CA just a few blocks up from Tri-City Hospital. It offers 120 beds, including a dedicated Alzheimer’s and Dementia Unit. It boasts 3 recently renovated rehab gyms complete with brand new equipment and is also licensed out-patient rehab facility.
For more information, visit www.vistaknoll.com
About Ensign™
The Ensign Group, Inc.'s operating subsidiaries provide a broad spectrum of skilled nursing and assisted living services, physical, occupational and speech therapies, and other rehabilitative and healthcare services for both long-term residents and short-stay rehabilitation patients, at 62 facilities located in California, Arizona, Texas, Washington, Utah and Idaho. Each of these facilities is operated by a separate, wholly-owned independent operating subsidiary that has its own management, employees and assets. References herein to the consolidated "Company" and "its" assets and activities, as well as the use of the terms "we," "us," "our" and similar verbiage are not meant to imply that The Ensign Group, Inc. has direct operating assets, employees or revenue, or that any of the facilities, the Service Center or the captive insurance subsidiary are operated by the same entity. More information about Ensign is available at http://www.ensigngroup.net .
Contact(s):
Jason Day
Director of Business Development, Vista Knoll
(760) 630-2273 (Office)
(760) 587-5373 (Mobile)
jday@ensigngroup.net
Ron Cook
Executive Director, Vista Knoll
(760) 630-2273 (Office)
rcook@ensigngroup.net