MEET OUR PLEDGE PARTNERS OF THE WEEK

Meet First Quality Products!  First Quality strives to make the best products to improve the lives of their customers, partners, employees and communities. They believe that raising the quality of a product can raise someone’s quality of life. They design, innovate, and manufacture with this in mind in the communities they are located in and for the markets they serve. Integrity, Humility and Unity are their core values that guide their decisions, shape their relationships and drive them toward one goal: MAKING THINGS BETTER.  Visit their website at www.firstquality.com or www.prevail.com for more information or contact Nicholle Bargabos at Nbargabos@firstquality.com.

Meet Fox Rothschild, LLP!  Fox Rothschild LP offers more than 40 years’ experience working with long-term care providers. They have represented skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, independent living communities, continuing care retirement communities, ancillary service providers, hospices, home health agencies, durable medical equipment companies, clinicians and long-term care administrators. They offer a national as well as North Carolina focused perspective. In North Carolina alone, five of their attorneys have worked extensively with long-term care providers. Their lawyers have served on the advisory committee of NCHCFA and the governing boards of continuing care retirement communities.

They regularly attend NCHCFA meetings and educational programs as well as national long-term care meetings and are very familiar with the regulatory environment and the issues facing long-term care providers. They do not need to reinvent the wheel at their clients’ expense. Their lawyers have represented their clients in crisis, whether during a survey or in response to an unfortunate event. They are knowledgeable concerning surveys, licensure and certification regulations, compliance matters, fraud and abuse requirements, and privacy and security obligations, to name a few. They have assisted long-term care clients in connection with operational issues, risk management, business and other litigation, contracts, arrangements with hospices or other providers and defending government investigations. They have worked on numerous contractual arrangements, the sale and purchase of multiple facilities, provider enrollment issues, reimbursement questions and structuring various types of business arrangements and long-term care.

Fox Rothschild, LLP works to structure and negotiate contracts and transactions so as to promote a successful on-going business relationship. They have also advised long-term care clients concerning myriad employment issues and immigration requirements and have spoken at various NCHCFA and NCALA programs and webinars. They know the industry and the players involved in the industry in North Carolina and strive to be practical and responsive. They know there are some crisis situations that cannot wait and circumstances when ideal solutions may not be workable so they work together with their clients to address the situation in a way that seeks to accomplish compliance and reduce risk while focusing on the best interests of the residents for whom they care each day. Visit their website at www.foxrothschild.com for more information or contact Maureen Murray at mmurray@foxrothschild.com or Susan Fradenburg at sfradenburg@foxrothschild.com.

Meet Gordon Food Service!  Gordon Food Service is a food service product and resource distributor with a long history in the nursing care industry. For over 120 years, they have delivered the excellence, expertise, and quality products their customers need to design successful food operations and experiences. They have grown to become the largest family-operated broadline food distribution company in North America by upholding the same business approach since 1897—being passionately committed to the people they serve.Visit their website at www.gfs.com for more information or contact Kevin Bailey at kevin.bailey@gfs.com.