Castle Peak Senior Life and Rehabilitation

To pair with its strong overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A+ for its short-term care score. In crafting these short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings are based on many items located in the a nursing home's inspections. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. We weighed the skill-level of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses were with residents, in determining our score in this area. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we graded was long-term care. We awarded this facility an acceptable grade in that area, with a C. Although this was not as favorable as some of this facility's other grades, it is nevertheless not the end of the world. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 89.34426 percent of its residents. This is pretty significantly lower than average. Nevertheless, this facility excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.