Angels Nursing Health Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. Our nursing grade includes many subcategories, however, the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In addition, this facility also performed well in inspections, which is based on its recent inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category, which is one of our top scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. This nursing home received 11 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

This nursing home was given a strong long-term care score as well. We gave it one of our higher scores in that category with a score of B. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary deaths for the aged 65 and up population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Our last area is short-term care, where we gave this nursing home a C in that category. Our short-term care scores are critical for people looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 4.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below the national average.