Ann's Choice

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in nursing, where it earned an A. There are numerous subcategories included in this grade. Most of the factors are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a patient more frequently.

Turning to inspections, this facility excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's recent government inspections. We awarded it an A for that category. Inspection grades are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's inspections. Places that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

Building on its remarkable profile, this nursing home also was given a superb short-term care grade, with a grade of A. Our short-term care ratings are believed to be most critical for people in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires more skilled nursing. This includes not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to return home from the facility. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Turning to the final area, this facility also performed admirably in the long-term care category. We gave it a grade of B+ for that category. This finalized a very strong profile. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. One of the data points we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 90.81632 percent of its residents. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, at least this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.