Allegiant Wellness and Rehab

In addition to receiving a great overall rating, this facility also received an A+ inspection rating. This grade is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the highest complements we can offer a nursing home. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this area usually have very few severe deficiencies. It doesn't look like we were able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To add to its dominant achievements in other areas, we gave this facility a grade of A for our long-term care rating. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. This facility really knocked it out of the park in this category.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. Our nursing grade looks at the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. With 5.1 hours of nursing care per patient daily, this place surpassed the overwhelming majority of nursing homes. Finally, this place also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, it fared as well as any facility the state in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We look at these datapoints as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.

The final category we graded was short-term care, where this nursing home received a grade of B. Although this ended up being its weakest category grade, this is nevertheless a favorable rating. Our short-term care scores are arguably more meaningful for patients requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.