Banner Boswell Rehabilitation Center

We also found that this facility excelled at short-term care. We gave them an A+ in this category. In our short-term care grade, we attempt to create a sound gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess the facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 6.5 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that category, we gave this nursing home an A. Our nursing score is primarily associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.5 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 prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, this nursing home also earned excellent inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our best scores in that category, with an A-. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few relatively minor dings aren't necessarily the end of the world.

The next category we assessed is long-term care. This facility received an impressive nursing rating in our assessment, with a B. Even though this isn't quite as impressive as a few of its other scores, this remains one of our more favorable grades in this area. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We were not able to track down this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.