Ashley Rehabilitation and Health Care Center

The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an excellent inspection score. In fact, its inspection grade was far superior to its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave this facility an A-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor dings aren't something to panic about.

We also awarded this nursing home a strong score in long-term care. This nursing home earned a B in this category, which is one of our more impressive scores. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. This place did fine in this category as far as we could tell, but we do want to point out that we appear to be missing some information from this nursing home's long-term care reporting.

This nursing home's third best category was its short-term care score, where it was given a C. Our short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. This figure was below average.

The next category we looked at is nursing. For that category, we awarded this facility a grade of C. We looked at the skill-level of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time the nurses spent with patients, in determining our score in this area. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, we look at quality-based metrics, such as the percent of patients who experienced pressure ulcers and major falls. These metrics are decent indicators of the quality of nursing care.