Anna John Resident Centered Care Community

One of the reasons this ended up being a strong facility is that it earned an impressive inspection rating. In fact, inspections turned out to be its best category grade. In that category, we gave it a grade of A. Our inspection ratings account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this category typically have few severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility truly excelled in the category of long-term care, where it received a score of A. Only a select group of nursing homes performed better in this area. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 92.43697 percent of its patients, which is somewhat less than we expected. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to our next area, this nursing home also earned a score of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this area. Our short-term care grades are likely most meaningful for those requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. It doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The final metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The next category we graded was nursing. In this area, we gave this nursing home a solid grade of B-. This was this facility's least impressive area. Our nursing score includes several components, but the main one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This place provided just 0 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a low total compared with most nursing homes. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility surprisingly excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In fact, it performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.