Aldersly Skilled Nursing Facility

This nursing home's nursing score outpaced its overall score. We gave it a B+ for its nursing score, which is one of our better scores. Our nursing score includes many factors. The most heavily weighted variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also received a favorable grade in our short-term care category. We gave this facility a better than average grade of B+ in that area. Short-term care grades are commonly used to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To provide highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. It does not look like this nursing home submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Additionally, we gave this facility a grade of B+ in our long-term care category. This is one of our more favorable scores. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We weren't able to find this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The last category we assessed is inspections. This nursing home did not receive favorable government inspection reports in recent years. In fact, we gave it an F in this category. This pulled down this facility's overall score quite a bit. We would advise paying special attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection score. We recommend you scrutinize the level of severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a risk to patient health or safety. Lastly, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed significant government fines of over $100,000. This often means that a nursing home's poor track record has been an issue for multiple years.