Awards & Recognition

Newsweek and Statista have ranked Roland Park Place as the #1 CCRC in Maryland in 2024, 2025 and 2026. We have ranked #11 nationwide in 2024 and #6 in 2025. And in 2026, our ranking is #5 on America’s Best Continuing Care Retirement Communities. This ranking is based on national online surveys, visitor satisfaction scores, accreditation scores and Google review scores.

Roland Park Place has been recognized as one of the Best Nursing Homes in the country by U.S. News & World Report. In 2024, we were recognized for our high-performing short-term rehabilitation. In 2025, 2026 and 2027, we were recognized for both our short-term rehabilitation and our long-term care.

Roland Park Place has been named a 2026 Best Continuing Care Retirement Community by U.S. News & World Report. U.S. News analyzed 322 resident and family member surveys to determine what sets our community apart. Visit our profile page on the U.S. News & World Report here for an overview of our awards and accolades.

Roland Park Place has been named a 2026 Best Independent Living by U.S. News & World Report, as well as High Performing Nationwide in Activities & Enrichment and Management & Staff. U.S. News analyzed 322 resident and family member surveys to determine what sets our community apart. Visit our profile page on the U.S. News & World Report here for an overview of our awards and accolades.

Roland Park Place has been named a 2025 Best Memory Care by U.S. News & World Report, as well as High Performing Nationwide in both Food and Dining and Feels Like Home categories. U.S. News analyzed 154 resident and family member surveys to determine what sets our community apart. Visit our profile page on the U.S. News & World Report here for an overview of our awards and accolades.

We’re proud to earn the 2026-2027 Great Place To Work® Certification™. The most definitive “employer-of-choice” recognition that companies aspire to achieve, it is the only recognition based entirely on what employees report about their workplace experience – specifically, how consistently they experience a high-trust workplace. Great Place to Work Certification is recognized worldwide by employees and employers alike and is the global benchmark for identifying and recognizing outstanding employee experience.

The MD500 is The Daily Record’s first-ever list of the state’s most powerful and impactful leaders in business, nonprofits, law, government and higher education. We’re proud to share that our CEO, Sam Guedouar, has been named to this list of influential leaders, and proud to have his leadership guiding the Roland Park Place senior living community.

In 2024, our very own Sam Guedouar was recognized by the Daily Record as one of Maryland’s most admired CEOs. This distinction honors talented CEOs, higher education leaders and nonprofit executive directors throughout Maryland whose leadership and vision are recognized by those around them. A panel of judges selects these winners based on professional accomplishments, community service and the letters of reference submitted by co-workers, board members and community leaders showing the CEOs’ leadership and vision.

Team members of Roland Park Place have received credentials from AGE-u-cate Training Institute for Dementia Live® Coach Training. This high-impact dementia simulation experience immerses participants into simulations of life with dementia, giving our team a deeper understanding of the experience of living with cognitive impairment and sensory change.

In 2024, Roland Park Place received the above Readers’ Choice Awards from Baltimore Style Magazine:

• Winner – Best Apartment Community
• Runner Up – Best Senior Independent Living
• Runner Up – Best Senior Center
• Runner Up – Best Senior Programming

The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) is the only accrediting body for CCRCs. To earn their accreditation, Roland Park Place had to demonstrate continued excellence and growth in all categories.

Roland Park Place is being honored as the Workplace Wellness Program of the Year by The Daily Record. Maryland is a national leader of health care research and development and The Daily Record will be honoring those organizations and individuals who have made an impact on the quality of health care within our state. We’re proud to be a 2025 honoree.

Sam Guedouar, Roland Park Place CEO, has been accepted into the LeadingAge Larry Minnix Leadership Academy, a nationally recognized program dedicated to cultivating transformative leaders in aging services. The Leadership Academy is a unique professional development program designed to help aging services professionals uncover and leverage their authentic leadership styles through a curriculum that emphasizes reflective practice, self-exploration, and relationship-building.

Roland Park Place is a proud member of the International Council on Active Aging (ICAA), a professional association that leads, connects and defines the active-aging industry. This membership demonstrates our commitment and dedication to wellness.

As part of our promise to provide residents with exceptional senior living, Roland Park Place proudly offers LEED Silver-Certified apartments in the 2021 community expansion. LEED-certified homes are designed and built to be energy and resource efficient, while also providing a healthier, more durable environment for our residents.

Roland Park Place has been recognized as a 2026 Safest Places to Live™ — a national designation awarded to senior living communities that meet the 8-Point Standard of Resident Security. This recognition reflects the efforts of our entire team, who show up every day committed to keeping our residents safe and our families informed.

Roland Park Place was recently named Senior Care’s Best Place to Work 2026 from Activated Insights – the industry leader in senior care, health care and human services surveys. Roland Park Place has met the rigorous benchmarks, backed by objective third-party data, to earn this badge of honor representing excellence in care.