Boulevard Rehabilitation Center

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A-. Few facilities performed better in this area. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home's second highest area ended up being its long-term care score, where it received a grade of C. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This place keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. We analyzed the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses were with residents, in determining our rating in this area. This place provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a somewhat discouraging figure as it is well below average. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place.

This nursing home's least impressive category was short-term care, which is the final category we analyzed. For this area, we awarded this facility a grade of just D. Short-term care grades are typically employed to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Considering its score in this area, we were not stunned to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. Honestly, this was what we expected here. Finally, we assessed the number of residents that eventually returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.