Apex Rehabilitation & Care Center

This facility received a quality overall score as described above, but we especially wanted to point out its nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A+ in this area. Our inspection grades weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area generally have few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through 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.

This facility also was awarded an impressive long-term care score. Indeed, we gave it an above average score of B+ in this area. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 95.18459 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of C. This wasn't quite as good as some of its other scores, but a grade in this range is not the end of the world. There are many factors included in this grade. Many of the factors are tied to nurse staffing. This facility provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below average. Finally, while this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of our quality metrics. With less than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it did very well in this statistic.

This facility's weakest category is short-term care, which is the final category we scored. For this area, we awarded this facility a grade of D. Short-term care grades are typically employed to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. We found that this facility was subpar in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the data we assessed. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.