Chapel View Senior Health & Living

On top of performing well overall, this facility earned a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our best scores in that area with a grade of A+. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to direct your attention to the fact that this nursing home performed well in our short-term care rating. We gave them a dominant score of A+ in this category. Our short-term care ratings are crucial for patients needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 6.6 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

The third area we analyzed was long-term care. This nursing home also was given an A+ long-term care grade, making it one of the few facilities to be given more than one A+ category scores. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 96.654274 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping 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.

Moving on to the final category, this nursing home received a very strong nursing rating. We gave it an A in that category, rounding out a straight A profile. Our nursing grade is based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.