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 couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home was given its next most favorable category score in the category of short-term care. We awarded this facility a B- in this area, which is an acceptable grade. In determining our short-term care ratings, we look at the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is generally a fair measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than a typical facility. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of C. When computing our nursing grades, we look at both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this facility performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

The last category we analyzed is long-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a C. In calculating our long-term care ratings, we look at the assistance with daily living offered to a facility's residents. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 93.952484 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.