The Health Care Association of New Jersey has announced that seven long-term care providers across the state have earned the 2026 Silver Achievement in Quality Award, a national recognition honoring genuinely strong performance across the demanding world of skilled nursing and assisted living care. The recognized group includes six skilled nursing centers alongside one assisted living community, giving New Jersey a genuinely strong showing within this year’s national awards cycle.
The 2026 New Jersey Silver Award Recipients:
- Brightview Wayne (Assisted Living Community)
- Complete Care at Barn Hill Care Center (Skilled Nursing Center)
- Complete Care at Clark (Skilled Nursing Center)
- Complete Care at Marcella (Skilled Nursing Center)
- Complete Care at Monmouth (Skilled Nursing Center)
- Complete Care at Orange Park (Skilled Nursing Center)
- Willow Springs Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center (Skilled Nursing Center) [1]
This year’s New Jersey recipients include Brightview Wayne, recognized as an assisted living community, alongside six skilled nursing centers spanning the state, Complete Care at Barn Hill Care Center, Complete Care at Clark, Complete Care at Marcella, Complete Care at Monmouth, Complete Care at Orange Park, and Willow Springs Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center. One detail stands out clearly within that list, since the Complete Care provider network alone claimed five of the seven total New Jersey spots recognized nationally this year, a genuinely dominant showing that reflects consistent quality performance across multiple facilities operating under that same network rather than a single standout location.
Behind this recognition sits the Health Care Association of New Jersey itself, the largest nonprofit trade association representing long-term care providers throughout the state. Founded in 1949 and headquartered in Hamilton, the organization has spent more than seven decades serving as a genuinely significant advocate for New Jersey’s senior care industry, functioning as a direct bridge between local care providers and the state and federal regulatory bodies overseeing their work. The association’s membership footprint spans skilled nursing centers, subacute care units, assisted living communities, and adult medical day care facilities, giving it genuine reach across nearly every corner of New Jersey’s long-term care landscape.
The organization’s work extends across several genuinely distinct core focus areas beyond simply recognizing quality achievement. On the legislative side, the association lobbies both state lawmakers and federal officials directly on behalf of long-term care facilities, with particular attention paid to workforce recruitment challenges, Medicaid reimbursement rates, and evolving healthcare mandates, issues that directly shape whether individual care facilities can continue operating sustainably while maintaining high standards of resident care. The association also provides essential professional education, offering training and continuing education credits required for Licensed Nursing Home Administrators and Certified Assisted Living Administrators to maintain their state compliance credentials, ensuring the industry’s leadership pipeline stays properly trained and certified over time.
Beyond legislative advocacy and professional training, the association hosts genuinely major industry events as well, including its flagship HCANJ Annual Convention and Expo held in Atlantic City, an event that draws thousands of decision makers and practitioners together each year for practical, credential based training sessions covering the latest developments across the long-term care industry. The association also runs consumer facing resources directly for the public, including the New Jersey Care Finder, a portal specifically designed to help local families navigate the often overwhelming process of locating vetted long-term care options for elderly or disabled relatives, extending the organization’s mission well beyond industry advocacy and into direct, practical support for families making genuinely difficult care decisions.
This year’s Silver Award recognition itself traces directly back to the association’s broader quality improvement initiatives, through which HCANJ coaches local care providers through rigorous performance evaluations tied to the National Quality Award program administered by the American Health Care Association, HCANJ’s national affiliate organization. That process gives New Jersey facilities a genuine, externally validated benchmark to measure their own performance against, and this year’s seven recipients represent facilities that have demonstrated the kind of sustained quality improvement the award program is specifically designed to recognize.
For New Jersey families currently navigating long-term care decisions for an aging or disabled loved one, this year’s Silver Award recipients offer a genuinely meaningful signal of quality, one grounded in a rigorous, externally administered evaluation process rather than marketing alone. With Complete Care’s network claiming the majority of this year’s recognized facilities alongside Brightview Wayne and Willow Springs Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, New Jersey families now have a clearer, nationally validated starting point as they work to identify care options genuinely capable of delivering the kind of consistent, high quality care their families deserve.
