Rosewood Gardens Rehab and Nursing Center

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our long-term care grade. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 35.022026 percent of its residents. This is a few points lower than we were hoping for but still a decent percentage. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. While this didn't quite match its scores in some of the categories discussed above, this is still a decent score. Our nursing rating analyzes the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This facility provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a somewhat concerning figure which is well below average. Finally, while this nursing home got dinged a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of our quality metrics. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed well in this subcategory.

This facility's least impressive area is short-term care, which is the last area we analyzed. For this area, we gave this nursing home a grade of just D. Our short-term care scores are probably most critical for patients requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.9 percent of its residents returning home.