About Us

At High-Crest, we operate provincially licensed and regulated health care facilities, with five facilities operating in Northern Nova Scotia. We are a Nationally Accredited company. Our high standards, safe work practices, healthy and stimulating environment ensures a high quality lifestyle for each and every resident.

Our adept, kind and hard working culture is the backbone to the organization. The residents and clients are treated with the utmost respect and always considered top priority.

 

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Our Mission Statement

Our mission is to serve the community and our residents by providing a living area and a place where residents feel at home, while offering a variety of programs and professional services to promote a high quality of life in a caring environment that provides client safety, personal choice, comfort, autonomy, privacy and upholds individual dignity through continued independence.

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 Our Vision Statement

Our Vision is to be a recognized leader with ethical values in quality, innovation, client safety and excellence of services in the provision of care while in the province of Nova Scotia.

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 Our Statement of Core Values

Our primary desire is to exceed expectations by striving to continually improve our focus on the needs and quality of life of our residents. Our commitment is achieved by building quality partnerships with the community and by recruiting and training dynamic teams of leaders and care givers who are quality focused and client oriented. Our commitment is also to invest in the quality of our people by supporting the educational goals of staff seeking to improve their knowledge and skills.

The strategic priorities are to foster and establish within the core of our operation certain categories of cultures summarized as follows:

 Culture of Safety

Define resident and staff safety as a strategic priority, identify risk factors, define protocol and adopt measures to prevent, minimize and manage risks.

 Culture of Quality

Continuously improve the quality of care and services that we deliver.

 Culture of Comfort

Upgrade and improve our indoors, outdoors and community environment.

 Culture of Innovation

Optimize opportunities available through innovation and technology to improve services, our environment and the quality of life of clients.

 Culture of Wellness

Foster opportunities for staff wellness, safety, growth and harmonious employment relations.

 Culture of Inclusion

Provide opportunities for meaningful family, stakeholder and community involvement.

 Culture of Growth

Improve operational practices to optimize the organization’s strength and pursue opportunities for growth.

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Our Strategic Direction

Create a culture of health and safety, so that the environments where residents, volunteers and staff live, visit and work promote safety, comfort and well being while providing the highest quality of care and service.

Create and maintain a sustainable integrated system through technology and research within all of High-Crest Enterprises Ltd. homes which would enable us to renovate and expand existing homes and construct new homes.

Create, provide and assist community based programs, utilizing other health care providers, community organizations, volunteers and staff while fostering positive relationships with community partners to help meet the needs of our community.

Create a formal approach to quality management and use continuous quality improvement process in our work through offering educational upgrades for employees to better enhance their professionalism while constantly improving the care and safety of the residents

Act in the best interest of our clients ensuring that decisions related to care and services are sensitive to moral and cultural issues.

Identify related services and other opportunity outside the normal business scope that is provided by High-Crest Enterprises Ltd such as assisted living, home care, transportation requirements for seniors in our community.

 

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