Aldersly Skilled Nursing Facility

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this facility also earned an elite long-term care score. We gave it one of our better grades in that area, with an A. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Our nursing score analyzes the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of training of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to the third area, this nursing home also received a score of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is an above average score in this area. With our short-term care score, we seek to create a sound gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze a facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

In the last category we looked at, we found that this nursing home received a solid government inspection report this year as well. As a result, it earned a decent score in our inspection category with a score of B-. Inspection scores are based on many data points found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.