Calvin Community

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. The nursing rating assesses quite a few datapoints, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This particular nursing home 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 nursing home 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 frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also received an A+ inspection score, making it one of the rare nursing homes to receive multiple A+'s in our categories. This is based on the nursing home's recent government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can pay to a facility. Our inspection scores weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area usually have few of these severe deficiencies. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Moving on our third area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our long-term care rating. This is a superb score. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 72.093025 percent of its residents, which is slightly less than we expected. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to our next area, this nursing home was awarded a strong short-term care rating. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in that area, giving this facility straight A's. Our short-term care grades are presumably most meaningful for patients in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.