Advanced Health Care of Summerlin

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ short-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. With our short-term care rating, we seek to craft a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 6.2 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this nursing home excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Not many nursing homes performed better in this area. Our inspection ratings account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this area usually have few of these severe deficiencies. This facility received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. There are several criteria within this area. Most of the subcategories reflect levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning a resident at least once a day.

The final category we graded is long-term care. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a solid grade of C. This actually proved to be this nursing home's weakest category. Long-term care grades are essential for patients in need of non-healthcare services such as personal care. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. It does not appear that this nursing home provided information on its vaccination levels. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.