Blossom Nursing and Rehab Center

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall score in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our best scores in that category with an A-. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means that the government 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 inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

In addition, we gave this nursing home a grade of B in our short-term care category. This happens to be one of our more favorable scores. Our short-term care grades are critical for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. We weren't able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

We also awarded this facility a respectable grade in the category of long-term care, where it received a B-. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After considering the amount of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated only 72.953735 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Nevertheless, this place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's weakest area was nursing, which is the final area we looked at. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this category. Even with some acceptable grades in other categories, this score is still disappointing so we wanted to draw your attention to it. Nursing grades are mostly associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This place offered only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is well below average. In addition to its below average nursing hours, this place also received suboptimal marks in many of the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We found that more of this nursing home's patients sustained falls which led to serious injury. We would argue that many falls could likely be avoided with better nursing care. This statistic contributed to this facility receiving a poor nursing score.