AHC Millennium

On top of receiving an elite overall grade, this facility earned an A+ inspection grade. This score is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can offer a nursing home. Our inspection ratings weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area tend to have few severe deficiencies. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its strong achievements in other areas, we gave this facility a score of A for its long-term care score. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are well cared for. This nursing home is as good as it gets in this area.

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. When determining our nursing ratings, we analyze both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving a patient at least once a day.

In the final category we assessed, this nursing home received a very favorable grade of A- in our short-term care category. With this score, the nursing home completed a straight A report card. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is generally a useful measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.