Amara Healthcare & Rehab

On top of earning a strong overall rating, this facility performed even better in our inspections category which is associated with the nursing home's recent government inspections. We gave it a grade of A- for this category, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection grades are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to this nursing home's list of strengths, it also received an excellent nursing grade. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Nursing ratings are mostly based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning a patient more often.

Turning to the next category, this nursing home also earned a score of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this area. Facilities that do well in this category typically provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 96.42857 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is often a dangerous illness for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next area we looked at is short-term care. We awarded this nursing home one of our higher scores in this area, with a grade of B. This nursing home ended up being relatively strong across the board. Short-term care grades are vital for patients looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more highly-skilled nursing. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.