Careers

Jewish Home received the WELL Health-Safety Rating from the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), the leading global authority on healthy buildings. The accomplishment marks the first in the region. The WELL Health-Safety Rating is an evidence-based, third-party verified rating for all new and existing buildings and spaces focusing on operational policies, maintenance protocols, stakeholder engagement and emergency plans to address a post-COVID-19 environment now and into the future. The rating, launched in 2020, has now been adopted in more than 100 countries at almost 24,000 locations representing 2.3 billion square feet of space.

Jewish Home of Rochester has been nationally recognized for excellence in care for a sixth year. For 2024, the organization was named a U.S. News Best Nursing Home for both long-term care and short-term rehabilitation. Only 19% of skilled nursing facilities nationwide earned this distinction. Jewish Home is one of only 56 out of 610 nursing homes in New York State to received an overall rating of five out of five.

Jewish Home has been certified as a Great Place to Work® by the Great Place to Work Institute, the global authority on high-trust, high-performance workplace cultures, for the fifth year in a row. Great Place to Work evaluated more than 60 elements of team members’ experience on the job for employees across the Jewish Home organization. The elements included employee trust in the organization, pride in the organization’s community impact, belief that their work makes a difference, and feeling their work has special meaning. Rankings are based on employees’ experiences, no matter who they are or what they do.

Jewish Home has been recognized as #1 in New York State as Newsweek’s America’s Best Nursing Homes 2025. This is the fifth year receiving this recognition. Only six percent of the nation’s 14,858 nursing homes receive this recognition.

Jewish Home of Rochester has been nationally recognized for excellence in care for a fifth year. For 2024, the organization was named a U.S. News Best Nursing Home for both long-term care and short-term rehabilitation. Only 19% of skilled nursing facilities nationwide earned this distinction. The Jewish Home is one of only 56 out of 610 nursing homes in New York State to received n overall rating of five out of five.

Jewish Senior Life earned a five-year term of CARF accreditation as a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) and for Adult Day Health Care, Assisted Living, Person-Centered Long-Term Care and Person-Centered Dementia Care programs. A three-year term of CARF accreditation was awarded for the Short-Term Rehabilitation program and Atkin Center for Outpatient Rehabilitation program. Both of these term lengths are the maximum allowable by CARF.

CARF accreditation demonstrates an organization’s quality, transparency and commitment to the satisfaction of the persons served. An organization receiving accreditation has voluntarily put itself through a rigorous peer review process and demonstrated to a team of surveyors during an on-site survey that it is committed to conforming to CARF’s accreditation conditions and standards. Furthermore, an organization that earns CARF accreditation is commended on its quest for quality programs and services.