2006 Codman Award recipient
Grandfather Home for Children is the recipient of the 2006 Ernest Amory Codman Award. Only two behavioral health care centers in the United States received the honor. The award recognizes outstanding achievements in improving safety and quality of care. We were selected by a panel of national experts because of our expanded "continuum of care" program and its effective system for evaluating and improving its work.
The continuum concept has enlarged our ministry beyond the residential treatment campus here in Banner Elk, North Carolina, to community sites in five other areas in North Carolina and Tennessee. Satelite campuses now exist around Asheville, Smoky, Northwast Tennessee, Winston-Salem and Gaston, with more than 25 counties participating.
Our new program includes several stages of care, from emergency placement to group homes, therapeutic foster care, family foster care, and permanent adoptions. It was developed to prevent the loss of progress often experienced by children as they leave one program and move to another. The "continuum of care" concept has the children under our umbrella of care as they move toward a permanent family solution.
