Press Release

Contact:
Mike Morris, Executive Administrator
University Retirement Community
(530) 747-7005

University Retirement Community Earns
Re-Accreditation from Continuing Care Watchdog Agency

This Continuing Care Retirement Community in Davis, Calif., received an unprecedented three exemplary marks in a five-year CARF-CCAC accreditation survey.

(Davis, California) March 9, 2010 – University Retirement Community at Davis, California (URC), is pleased to announce that in February 2010 it earned re-accreditation from the Continuing Care Accreditation Commission of the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (known as CARF-CCAC).

  • The CARF-CCAC accreditation team was extremely complimentary, commending URC for high excellence and best practices (a rarity in CARF reports) in three areas: governance, finance, and professional development.
  • URC, which celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, is an affiliate of national leader Pacific Retirement Services, Inc. (PRS). It has been accredited since September 2003, when it was the youngest community ever to receive this coveted rating. URC is undergoing a 64,450-square-foot expansion on its 15-acre campus near U.C. Davis.
  • CARF-CCAC is an independent, third-party nonprofit organization founded on the belief that accreditation promotes and maintains quality and integrity in accredited organizations.

“In addition to our surveys by the California Department of Health Services, the California Department of Social Services, financial audits, and due diligence reviews, among others,” says URC Executive Administrator Mike Morris, “the CARF-CCAC accreditation process measures our conformance with approximately 1,800 industry standards. We thank URC residents, URC and PRS management, and the board of directors for their involvement and support.”

To learn more about University Retirement Community, call (530) 747-7001 and visit www.retirement.org.

About University Retirement Community (www.retirement.org/davis)
The accredited, not-for-profit University Retirement Community is Davis’s only Continuing Care Retirement Community. Though it already offers a casual and vital lifestyle with beautiful residences, fine amenities, activities, and all levels of care on campus, URC is now expanding. The 64,450-square-foot expansion will add more new, very spacious Residential Living and Assisted Living apartments with fine finishes and views. URC is also building a new, state-of-the-art Wellness Center complete with fitness classes, strength training, massage and therapy rooms, a full-size indoor lap pool, a spa, a special therapy pool, private showers and locker rooms, and therapeutic steam rooms for men and women. Underneath it all will be large underground parking structure.

About CARF-CCAC (www.carf.org/aging)
The Continuing Care Accreditation Commission (CCAC), which was acquired by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) in 2003, is the nation's only accrediting body for continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) and other types of continuums of care that we refer to as aging services networks. Before the CCAC was founded, consumers, financial rating agencies, and others had no clear way of determining whether a retirement community was financially stable, providing quality care, or worthy of their investment. In 1985, a group of visionaries created CCAC to help ensure that the nation's retirement communities fulfill their promise of quality lifetime care to older persons.

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