Beth Sholom

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home performed well in short-term care. We awarded it an A for that category. Our short-term care ratings are arguably more critical for folks requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 7.2 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Building on its impressive profile, this facility also excelled in nursing. In fact, we gave it an B+ for that category. Our nursing grade is largely associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home 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 typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning residents at least once a day.

Turning to another of this facility's strengths, it also earned a very impressive inspection score. In that category, we awarded this facility an impressive grade of B+. Inspection ratings are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

The next category we looked at is long-term care. This facility was given a very good long-term care rating this year, with a C. Although this is not as impressive as a few of its other scores, this remains an acceptable grade in that category. In our long-term care rating, we weigh the quantity of services offered by a facility, along with a handful of quality metrics. After we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated just 80 percent of its patients against pneumonia. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.