Banner Boswell Rehabilitation Center

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an excellent short-term care score, with a grade of A. In computing our short-term care scores, we assess a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is often a useful measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 7.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Few nursing homes performed as well in this area. Inspection ratings are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Places that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. We looked at the licensure of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the number of hours those nurses spent with residents, in calculating our score in this category. This facility provided 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 place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Switching gears to the next area, this facility was given a very strong long-term care score. While this isn't as impressive as many of its other grades, this remains one of the stronger scores a facility can receive. Facilities that receive this kind of score in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are well cared for. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. It does not appear that this facility provided vaccination data. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.