Rosewood Gardens Rehab and Nursing Center

In addition to performing well overall, this facility earned nearly flawless government inspections. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that category with an A+. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so favorably is that it was awarded a dominant long-term care grade. In fact, long-term care ended up being its second most impressive category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A-. For patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 33.333336 percent of its patients, which is somewhat lower than we expected. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. This facility didn't perform quite as well in this category as it did in some other categories. Nevertheless, this is still a respectable score. Our nursing rating is largely based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This place averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, which is not an impressive total. Finally, although this facility got dinged a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in some of our quality measures. With less than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this subcategory.

The next area we scored was short-term care, where this facility was awarded a B-. While this proved to be its weakest category score, this is nevertheless not a bad grade. Short-term care grades are typically employed to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.