Quality & Excellence

Award-winning Senior Care and Senior Living for over 50 Years

Quality & Excellence

Award-winning Senior Care and Senior Living for over 40 Years

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Don’t Just Take Our Word For It

Hillcrest Health Services has provided senior care and senior living since 1967, and is now a leader among providers of aging-related services in Eastern Nebraska. Some of our recent awards and accomplishments include:

President and CEO, Jolene Roberts, named Sarpy County Chamber of Commerce Business Person of the Year in 2016
Named Business of the Year, 26+ Employees, Sarpy County Chamber of Commerce Annual Awards 2014
Dr. Anna Fisher appointed to serve on the American Health Care Association (AHCA) Clinical Practice Committee, 2014
Named Best in Show overall in Bellevue Parade, 2011, and Best in Business category for Bellevue Parade, 2012

Selected Readers’ Choice Best Nursing Home and Best Rehabilitation Facility, and Readers’ Choice Best of the Big O Retirement Home in 2013

Selected Readers’ Choice Best of the Big O Long-term Care Facility in both 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021

VP of Rehab Services, Matt Oestmann, named as one of Midlands Business Journal’s 2016 40 Under 40
President and CEO, Jolene Roberts, named a finalist for the Greater Omaha Business Excellence Awards, Business Woman of the Year, 2014

Selected Best Senior Care Services by the 2014 Sarpy County People’s Choice Awards

Named Best Employer (Over 50 Employees) by the Sarpy County People’s Choice Awards every year since 2014

Selected Readers’ Choice Best of the Big O in the Assisted Living Category in 2011

Named Readers’ Refer Assisted Living and Readers’ Choice Best of the Big O Long-term Care Facility in the 2016 Best of the Big O, and named Readers’ Refer Long-term Care in 2017

Recipient of the BBB 2015 Silver Award of Distinction for Significant Commitment to Ethical Business Practices
Jolene Roberts received the Bellevue Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Service Award, 2013
Winner of the Greater Omaha Economic Development Partnership’s 2010 Business Progress Award
Jolene Roberts named Worthy Women of Distinction, Suburban Newspapers, 2011

Best of the Big O named Hillcrest Readers’ Recommend Long-term Care Facility, Readers’ Recommend Assisted Living Facility and Readers’ Choice Retirement Home in 2014

Winner in the Long-term Care Facility and Skilled Nursing categories in the 2018 Sarpy People’s Choice Awards

Jolene Roberts inducted into the Sarpy County Business Hall of Fame, October 2013
Dr. Anna Fisher, Champion Award recipient, Alzheimer’s Association Nebraska, 2014
Dr. Anna Fisher named Bellevue University Professor of the Year, 2012
Director of Education and Quality, Dr. Anna Fisher, co-authors “Best Practices for Engaging Patients with Dementia” published in Nursing2014, one of the largest nursing journals in the world, and writes blogs for national trade publication, McKnight’s Long-term Care News

Winner in the Senior Care Services category in the Sarpy People’s Choice Awards every year since 2015

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Hillcrest Mable Rose

Winner of the Greater Omaha Economic Development Partnership’s 2010 Business Progress Award

Winner in the Best Assisted Living Community category selected by Omaha Magazine’s Best of OmahaTMContest in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 & 2017

National Assisted Living Association (NALA) Administrator of the Year honors for Administrator in 2007 and 2012

Selected Best Assisted Living by the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021 Sarpy County People’s Choice Awards

Selected in Best Assisted Living category by The Reader’s Choice Best of the Big O! 2014

Selected first place winner in the Best Memory care category by Omaha Magazine’s Best of Omaha contest

Named Best Senior Living Facility by the Best of Bellevue contest in 2019, 20290 and 2021

The Club at Hillcrest Mable Rose was selected as the first place winner in the Adult Day Center category in the 2022 Best of Omaha contest

Hillcrest Country Estates

Grand Lodge and Rehab Cottage addition project named an Argentum Senior Living by Design winner in late 2016

Selected Best Retirement Community, Best Long-term Care and Best Nursing Home by the 2015 & 2016 Sarpy County People’s Choice Awards

Selected Best Retirement Community by the Sarpy People’s Choice Awards in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021

Selected Best Long-term Care by the 2019, 2020 & 2021 Sarpy County People’s Choice Awards

Selected in two categories: Best Retirement Community and Best Long-term Care by The Reader’s Choice Best of the Big O! 2014

Winner in the Best Retirement Community category selected by Omaha Magazine’s Best of OmahaTMContest in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

The Cottages earned the highest rating, 5 Stars, from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)and are the first “culture change” skilled nursing households to open in Nebraska, serving 104 elders in 8 private, freestanding houses. medicare.gov

Winner in Best Assisted Living and Best Nursing Home in the 2018 Omaha Magazine’s Best of Omaha contest

Selected Best Skilled Nursing Community in the 2021 Sarpy County People’s Choice Awards

Selected Best Nursing Home – Short-term Care by U.S. News in 2020

Hillcrest Silver Ridge

Winner in the Assisted Living Community category in the 2020 Sarpy People’s Choice Awards, and Winner in the Memory Care Facility category in the 2021 Sarpy People’s Choice Awards

Second place winner in the Memory Care category in the Best of Omaha in 2021 and 2022

Hillcrest Shadow Lake

Winner in the Best Skilled Nursing category in the 2019 & 2020 Sarpy People’s Choice Awards

Selected Best Nursing Home – Long-term Care by U.S. News in 2021

Hillcrest Health & Rehab

Winner in the Best Rehabilitation Facility category selected by Omaha Magazine’s Best of OmahaTMContest in 2014 & 2015
Nebraska March of Dimes’ Excellence in Nursing honors for Vickie Worden, RN, Assistant Director of Nursing, 2013

Selected Best Nursing Home – Short-term Care by U.S. News in 2020

Hillcrest Home Care

Finalist for In-Home Care in the Omaha’s Choice Awards in 2016

Winner in the Best In-Home Nursing Service category selected by Omaha Magazine’s Best of OmahaTMContest in 2015 & 2017

Selected Best Home Health Provider by the Sarpy County People’s Choice Awards every year since 2014

Accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) achc.org

Selected Readers’ Refer In-Home Health Care in 2017, Readers’ Choice In-Home Health Care in  2019 & 2021 and Readers’ Choice Best of the Big O In-Home Health Care in 2020 by the Best of the Big O contest

Hillcrest Hospice

Winner in the Hospice Care category in the Sarpy People’s Choice Awards every year since 2017

First place winner in the Hospice Care category in the 2022 Best of Omaha

Hillcrest Caring Companions

First place winner for In-Home Non-Medical Care in Omaha Magazine’s Best of Omaha Contest in 2020

Third place winner for In-Home Non-Medical Care in Omaha Magazine’s Best of Omaha Contest in 2022

Innovate Physical Therapy

Selected Best Physical Therapy by the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2020 & 2021 Sarpy County People’s Choice Awards

Selected Best Occuaptional Therapy by the 2020 & 2021 Sarpy County People’s Choice Awards

Selected Best Speech Therapy by the 2020 & 2021 Sarpy County People’s Choice Awards

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