Adora Midtown Park

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this nursing home has received near flawless inspections in recent years. We gave them an A+ in this category. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its dominant achievements in other areas, we gave this facility a score of A for our long-term care rating. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. This nursing home really impressed us in this category.

This facility is also strong in the category of short-term care, where it received a score of B. It performed more favorably than most nursing homes in this area. In determining our short-term care scores, we scrutinize the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is more often than not a meaningful assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we assessed in this category is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The next area we scored was nursing. In this category, we awarded this nursing home an impressive grade of B. Our nursing grade assesses the facility's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as reliable indicators of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.