Allen Health and Rehabilitation

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home also received an A+ inspection grade. This grade is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the highest complements we can offer a nursing home. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this nursing home also was awarded favorable long-term care scores this year. Indeed, we awarded it one of our stronger grades in that category, with a grade of B+. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are well cared for. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 62.916664 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is somewhat below what we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, we were pleased to find place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility also received a favorable short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it an above average score of B in this category. Short-term care grades are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Switching gears to our final area, this facility was given an extremely favorable nursing rating. This facility did not end up having any weak spots. The nursing score includes a host of data points. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.