Atlantic Specialty Care has been named winner the 2016 Governor’s Award for Quality Care in Health Care Facilities. Governor Terry Branstad and Lieutenant Governor Kim Reynolds will present the award to Atlantic Specialty Care in Atlantic early this fall. The Atlantic facility was nominated by a family member of three former residents, all of whom required special care and attention due to their illnesses.

The Governor’s Award for Quality Care was established to recognize long-term care facilities that provide – in the nominator’s opinion – a high level of care to their residents. This year’s Governor’s Award recipients were selected from a field of 17 nominated facilities. Since the first awards were presented in 2001, a total of 53 awards have been presented to 46 individual facilities.