Ashford Hall

The main reason this facility received a decent overall score is its impeccable health inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better grades in that area, with an A-. This is a much better grade than the place's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. Our inspection ratings are based on items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A couple relatively minor deficiencies are not something to panic about.

This nursing home also was awarded a favorable long-term care score. Indeed, we gave them a grade of B in this area, which happens to be one of our better. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. Once we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 95.88477 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly is often a life or death ailment for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home does not take any chances. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of B- in this category. There are a variety of subcategories within this category. Many of the factors are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This place averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, which is not an impressive total. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally an indicator that a place has quality controls in place.

Turning to the last category, this nursing home was given a respectable short-term care score of C. In the category of short-term care, we try to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.