The Watermark at Broadway Cityview

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. In computing a facility's nursing rating, we consider the amount of time nurses are caring for residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Another reason we assessed this nursing home so highly is that it was awarded an A+ short-term care grade. This is just about as dominant as it gets in this area. With our short-term care assessment, we seek to craft a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess the nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 6.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Moving on to another of this nursing home's strengths, it also earned a very impressive inspection score. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

The final area we looked at is long-term care. We gave this nursing home one of our higher grades in this category, with a B. While this is not as strong as many of its other grades, it is nevertheless a positive grade. For residents seeking a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 70.588234 percent of its patients. This is a few points less than we anticipated. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.