The Watermark at Broadway Cityview

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our nursing grade looks at the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 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 facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Among this nursing home's other accomplishments is its elite short-term care score. It received one of our more impressive scores in that area, with a score of A-. In computing our short-term care grades, we look at a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This area is more often than not a useful assessment of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

This nursing home also received impressive government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our higher grades in that category, with a grade of B. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple relatively minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

The final category we looked at is long-term care, in which this nursing home received a B-. While this ended up being its lowest category grade, this is nevertheless nothing to be ashamed of. Long-term care grades focus on a nursing home's personal care rather than the skilled therapy or medical services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated 89.655174 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is quite a few points less than what we were hoping for. Nevertheless, this place keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.