Minding Your Business - Broad Reach Healthcare

Broad Reach Healthcare

Rehabilitation – Assisted-living – Long-term Care – Hospice Care

390 Orleans Rd.

North Chatham

508-945-4611

www.broadreachhealth.org

What a complete little town Chatham is. A beautiful Main Street, an airport, a fish pier, Coast Guard station, a five-star resort, and a second five-star facility, the Broad Reach Healthcare compound, home to a rehab center (both inpatient and outpatient), an assisted living facility, a nursing home with many levels of long-term care and a hospice care team. And because Chatham is such a small town, many who reside in the Victorian, the assisted-living component of Broad Reach, know each other and have known each other for a long time. It’s uniquely comfortable for them along with the excellent care occupants receive..

I recently spoke with Broad Reach's president, owner and CEO Bill Bogdanovich. I asked Bogdanovich if the compound felt like a community within our community. “Indeed it does,” he said. “Any other approach just seems to leave a bunch of individuals limited to trying their best, but never being able to achieve what they’d otherwise be able to collectively. Hopefully, we are able to offer a more seamless experience as patients, residents and families move across the various service areas where we provide care.”

Broad Reach has been named a great place to work many times, and has been recognized as a top-of-the-line rehab and long-term care facility, too. Anyone who has had a serious operation and then needs transitional rehab before returning home knows Liberty Commons is consistently one of the top choices, if not the top choice.

“The federal government has become quite proficient at assigning star ratings to nursing homes, based on a mix of metrics that include quality measures, regulatory compliance and staffing,” Bogdanovich said. “Liberty Commons is one of only two facilities on the Cape to have achieved an overall rating of five stars (out of five) — and not just achieved but maintained at that four to five star level for many years.”

Bogdanovich pointed out that Broad Reach also has a superb hospice program. “Broad Reach Hospice Care is caring for close to 100 patients across Cape Cod on any given day, in their homes, hospitals and other residential settings and facilities.

“Plus of all the hospice programs on the Cape, we also maintain a four-star rating despite being in all those different settings, and the Liberty Commons’ stroke accreditation is one of only a few in the entire country in a skilled nursing setting,” he added.

Bogdanovich has been at the helm of the healthcare complex since nearly “day one.”

“Liberty Commons opened in the late fall 1986. I hit the ground there in February 1987 taking responsibility for the day-to-day operations later that year. I like to say, I’ve been around longer than the furniture!

“Last year we earned a ‘World's Best Culture' designation as a workplace, after a rigorous external analysis of how people get things done around here, and what values matter most in going about that work. Of all the accolades, it’s probably the one which supports all the others the most!”

How fortunate Chatham is to have Broad Reach right down the road. They obviously don’t rest on their laurels but continue to improve year after year.