North Chandler Place

On top of earning a strong overall rating, this nursing home performed well in our inspections category, which is based on its recent inspection reports. In fact, we gave it an A for that area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively insignificant. This nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its impressive performance in other areas, we gave this facility a score of A for its short-term care grade. In determining these short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to formulate a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 7.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Turning to our next area, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is a well above average grade in this area. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 79.72973 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is a few points below what we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In the final category we analyzed, this facility was awarded a very strong grade of B+ in our nursing category. With this grade, the nursing home topped off a very strong report card. There are a variety of factors within this grade. Many of these subcategories are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a patient more frequently.