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 long-term care. We awarded this facility a B- in this area, which is an acceptable grade. In determining our long-term care ratings, we look at the personal care offered to the nursing home's residents. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 93.432205 percent of its residents, which is slightly less than we expected. Nevertheless, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility's third most favorable area turned out to be its short-term care grade, where it received a grade of C. In determining our short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This score is typically a meaningful assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We found that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. It provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The final category we scored was nursing, which turned out to be this facility's least impressive area. We awarded this facility a grade of D in that category. Nursing ratings are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.