Care One at Somerset Valley

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

Contributing to this nursing home's list of achievements, it also received a first-rate short-term care score. We gave them an elite grade of A in this category. Short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

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. There are quite a few factors within this area. Many of the datapoints are tied to nurse staffing. This facility averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which is not an impressive total. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. It scored well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Turning to our fourth category, this facility was given an acceptable long-term care rating. Even though this was not nearly as strong as several of its other scores, this is still not a poor grade. For prospective residents seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down this place's vaccination data. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.