Caroline Kline Galland Home

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our short-term care rating. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To offer quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 7.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Turning to inspections, this nursing home excelled in that area, which is based on the nursing home's government inspections. We awarded it a grade of A for that category. Our inspection ratings are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. There are a number of datapoints within this grade. Most of the factors relate to nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning a patient at least once a day.

Turning to the fourth area, this facility also excelled in the long-term care category. We awarded it a B+ in that category. This wrapped up a very impressive profile. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 93.589745 percent of its residents. This is a bit lower than we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping 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.