Allay Health and Rehab

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Unfortunately, this nursing home received a category L deficiency, which is not what we expected given its inspection rating. This category means CMS discovered a widespread deficiency placing resident health or safety in immediate danger. In spite of this major red flag, other aspects of this facility's inspection report gave us some hope.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In fact, nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility an B. In computing a facility's nursing score, we consider the number of hours nurses commit to residents as well as the skill levels of the nurses. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The third best category we awarded this nursing home in any category came in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a C. Short-term care grades are meaningful for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional skilled nursing. This includes a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.

Moving on to the last category, this facility received a C for long-term care, which we consider to be an acceptable grade. In our long-term care assessment, we focus more on the sheer volume of services provided by a facility, as well as a handful of quality metrics. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. We were disappointed to learn that this facility vaccinated just 81.52174 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Nevertheless, this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.