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To pair with its impressive overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A for our nursing grade. In calculating our nursing grades, we factor in both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving a patient even once per day.

An additional strong feature for this facility is that it was given a favorable short-term care score. In fact, this wound up being its second best category score. In this area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. Short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Turning to another strength for this nursing home, we gave them one of our stronger scores in our long-term care category as well, with a B. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 80.32787 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be a bit below what we were hoping for but still a respectable percentage. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Moving on to inspections, it appears this nursing home has earned quality government inspections in recent years as well. We gave it a B- in this area. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we were able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Without having information regarding deficiencies for this nursing home, it was a challenge to really evaluate it in terms of this category.