Calvin Community

In addition to being an elite facility overall, this facility also performed well in our inspections category, where it earned an A+. Very few nursing homes fared as well in this category. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors did not deem 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.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that category, we gave this nursing home an A+. Our nursing rating consists of a handful of subcategories, but the paramount one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next category we assessed is long-term care. This facility excelled in our long-term care category also. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 82.8877 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be a few points below what we anticipated but still a decent figure. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In our last category, this nursing home also received a first-rate short-term care rating, with an A. This topped off a first-rate profile. Short-term care grades are generally used to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.