Anchor Post-Acute

One of the reasons this place is a strong nursing home is that it earned a very impressive inspection rating. Inspections turned out to be its best category grade. In that area, we gave this facility an A. Inspection grades are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to this facility's list of achievements, it also was awarded a superb long-term care grade. We gave them a dominant strong of A- in this area. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 96.86275 percent of its patients, which is higher than the average nursing home. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next category we analyzed was short-term care. This nursing home received an impressive short-term care score, with a B+ in this area. Short-term care grades are generally used to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services In order to offer quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. It doesn't appear that this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The final area we looked at was nursing, in which this nursing home received a grade of C. This actually proved to be this facility's least impressive area. This is still not the end of the world. There are a number of subcategories included in this area. Many of these factors reflect the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, our nursing ratings also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this facility actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.