Serento Rosa

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for short-term care. Short-term care grades are often used to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To offer high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings are tied to items found on the a nursing home's government inspections. Nursing homes that score well in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor dings are not necessarily something to panic about.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. In calculating our nursing ratings, we analyze both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Our last area is long-term care, where we gave this nursing home a C in this category. Our long-term care scores are more important for residents in need of more traditional assistance related to personal care. After we finished assessing the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinates 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.