Aerius Health Center

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in the category of short-term care, where it earned an A. Few facilities performed better in this category. Short-term care grades are often used to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. It does not look like this nursing home submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed as well in this area. Inspection scores are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Places that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

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. Our nursing grade focuses on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of skill of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The last category we analyzed is long-term care, in which this nursing home received a grade of C. This actually ended up being this facility's least impressive category. This is still not a poor grade. Our long-term care scores are more critical for people needing more conventional services related to personal care. One of the criteria we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 94.4 percent of its patients. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.