Allegiant Wellness and Rehab

One of the many reasons this ended up being a quality nursing home is it earned an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical area. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we were able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Compounding its high-end accomplishments in other areas, we gave this nursing home a score of A for its long-term care grade. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. This place is as good as it gets in this category.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. Nursing grades are tied to nurse staffing levels. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The last area we analyzed was short-term care, in which this nursing home was awarded a B. Even though this proved to be its lowest category score, this is still a strong grade. Our short-term care grade is typically used to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to offer quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.