Balmoral Home

While we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it an A for our inspections rating. This score is significantly more impressive than the facility's overall score. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some are quite insignificant. 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 with this deficiency, this place still had a relatively favorable report.

This nursing home's second best category turned out to be long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C. In a long-term care environment, the facility'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. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this facility vaccinated 74.91909 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be quite a bit lower than the national average. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place had 2.27 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. While this figure is somewhat concerning, this number may be skewed for some nursing homes due to the preexisting medical conditions of residents.

This nursing home's second lowest score was short-term care, where it received just a D in that category. This is a well below average score. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we analyze a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is considered to be a solid measure of a facility's rehabilitation. In this facility's case, we found that it offers less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. We found that just 48.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This nursing home's least impressive area is nursing, which is the last category we scored. In this area, we awarded this nursing home a D. Our nursing score focuses on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This facility offered just 1.8 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is well below average. Unfortunately, this place also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This place was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this metric.