Advanced Health Care of Reno

To go along with its strong overall score, we gave this facility an elite grade of A+ for its short-term care grade. In calculating our short-term care grades, we scrutinize a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is frequently a reliable assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that 7.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Turning to our inspection category, this nursing home excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. We awarded it an A for that category. Our inspection scores are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's government inspections. Nursing homes that score well in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Our nursing score focuses on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of training of the nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Nevada in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of turning a resident more often.

The last area we looked at is long-term care, in which this nursing home was awarded a B. Believe it or not, this proved to be this nursing home's least impressive category. A nursing home is doing something right when their weakest grade still beats out most other nursing homes. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.