Acclaim Rehabilitation and Care Center

In addition to earning a strong overall rating, this nursing home performed even better in the area of inspections which is based on the nursing home's recent inspection reports. In fact, we gave it an A+ for that category, which is one of our highest grades. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Our nursing grade is largely tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.3 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 the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving patients more often.

This nursing home's next most favorable category is long-term care. We awarded it a B- in this category. This is basically a slightly below average grade in this area. In our long-term care score, we focus on the sheer quantity of care offered by a facility, as well as a handful of qualitative statistics. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home provided the vaccine to 96.42857 percent of its residents, which is a very solid datapoint. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next area we analyzed is short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of C in this category. Our short-term care grades are presumably most meaningful for patients in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional skilled nursing services. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 3.4 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.