Aldersly Skilled Nursing Facility

One of the reasons this proved to be a decent nursing home is it received a very favorable nursing rating. In fact, its nursing rating is its best category. In this area, we gave this facility a B+. In computing our nursing grades, we analyze both staffing levels and the skill levels of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures 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 nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a resident more frequently.

Another one of this facility's more favorable category grades came in the category of short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. It actually fared better than most facilities in this category. Short-term care grades are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. It doesn't look like this nursing home submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Another one of this facility's higher category grades was in the category of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a B+. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We weren't able to locate this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final category we assessed was inspections. This nursing home did not receive favorable government inspection reports in recent years. We gave it an F in this category. This ended up pulling down this facility's overall score quite a bit. We would advise paying special attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection score. We would pay close attention to the level of severity of those deficiencies. This facility had 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they posed a threat to resident health or safety. Lastly, we need to point out that this place was assessed significant government fines in recent years of more than $100,000. This often indicates that a nursing home's poor performance has been an issue for multiple years.