North Chandler Place

This nursing home received a quality overall score as described above, but we especially want to point out its nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this category. Our inspection ratings are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among this facility's other achievements is its superb short-term care score. It received one of our more impressive scores in that area, with a grade of A-. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is often a meaningful measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This nursing home truly excelled in the area of long-term care, where it received a score of A-. Very few nursing homes performed better in this area. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 47.826084 percent of its patients. This is somewhat lower than we anticipated. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next category we rated is nursing. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an acceptable grade of B-. This proved to be this facility's weakest category. The nursing grade features several subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a place has quality controls in place.