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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 644
By Williams
HJR0644
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A RESOLUTION to honor NHC Cookeville upon being named the
2024 NHC Center of the Year.
WHEREAS, the members of this General Assembly take great pride in honoring those
facilities that provide high-quality care to older adults in Tennessee; and
WHEREAS, NHC Cookeville is one such facility, which was recently honored as the
2024 Center of the Year by National HealthCare Corporation (NHC) at its annual leadership
conference; and
WHEREAS, NHC is a senior care company based in Murfreesboro with eighty
healthcare centers, and it operates more than 10,300 beds nationally; NHC services include
assisted living, home care, hospice, mental health hospitals, pharmacy, insurance, and
management services; and
WHEREAS, enjoying an exemplary history of serving patients and families in Cookeville
and the Upper Cumberland area, NHC Cookeville is a 104-bed healthcare center led by
Administrator Jeremy Stoner and Director of Nursing Kelsie Bean; and
WHEREAS, Administrator Stoner has been at NHC Cookeville since 1998 and was
recognized as NHC Administrator of the Year in 2022; and
WHEREAS, no stranger to awards and accolades, NHC Cookeville has been among the
top five in the NHC Center of the Year rankings for the past three years and has won or been a
finalist for numerous NHC Honor Club and Legends Awards in past years; and;
WHEREAS, NHC Cookeville was also a 2023 recipient of the Bronze National Quality
Award by the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living; and
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WHEREAS, in 2024, NHC Cookeville was named an NHC 5-Star Center of Excellence,
had a Patient Care Component of 95.66 percent, overall occupancy of 94.56 percent, and a net
customer satisfaction score of 76.62; and
WHEREAS, additionally, NHC Cookeville is recognized as a CMS 5-Star Center,
indicating that it is in the top ten percent of all skilled nursing centers; and
WHEREAS, this State places a high priority on the provision of competent and
compassionate care in all assisted living and long-term care facilities, and it is fitting that this
General Assembly should recognize and applaud NHC Cookeville and its staff for their
extraordinary professionalism; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE HUNDRED
FOURTEENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, THE SENATE
CONCURRING, that we hereby honor NHC Cookeville on being named the 2024 Center of the
Year and applaud the staff and administrators for their ongoing commitment to providing
outstanding care to the residents of Tennessee.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that an appropriate copy of this resolution be prepared
for presentation with this final clause omitted from such copy and upon proper request made to
the appropriate clerk, the language appearing immediately following the State seal appear
without House or Senate designation.