Assisi Healthcare of Clare Oaks

In addition to performing well overall, this facility received high marks for short-term care as well. As a result, it received our highest score in that category with an A+. In calculating our short-term care scores, we scrutinize a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is often a meaningful assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. 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 datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Few nursing homes performed as well in this area. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Our nursing rating is based on a handful of datapoints, however, the most important one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving residents more frequently.

Moving on to the final category, this facility was given an acceptable long-term care grade. Even though this was not quite as elite as some of its other scores, this is still a middle of the pack score. Our long-term care grades are based on the nursing home's amount of care. This includes a broad range of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to find that this nursing home vaccinated 93.93939 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.