Allaire Rehab & Nursing

The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it earned an excellent inspection score. In fact, its inspection grade was far superior to its overall score. In the inspections category, we gave it an A. Our inspection grades are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily something to panic about.

This nursing home also was awarded a favorable grade in our long-term care category. We gave this nursing home a better than average grade of B in this category. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 95.36178 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.04 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The third category we assessed was short-term care, where this facility was awarded a B- in this category. In calculating these short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. We were not able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last metric we looked at in this area is the number of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

The final area we assessed was nursing. We gave this nursing home a grade of C in this category. There are numerous criteria included in this grade. Many of the subcategories are tied to staffing levels. This place averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which is a very low figure. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics. Although this place got docked a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in a few of these quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared well in this area. This is often a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a system of turning residents more frequently.