Cearu Medical Resort

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its top-shelf resume, this facility also excelled in our short-term care area. In fact, it received a grade of A in the category. In our short-term care score, we attempt to craft a sound measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Moving on our next category, we gave this facility a grade of A for its long-term care grade. This is a superb grade. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 97.297295 percent of its residents. This is a proven method to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the elderly population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Switching gears to the fourth category, this facility was awarded an extremely favorable nursing rating. In fact, we awarded it an A- in this category, resulting in this facility receiving straight A's. Our nursing rating analyzes many subcategories, however, the most important one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This nursing home fared well in some of the quality measures we assessed. For example, in terms of the percentage of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided with better nursing care.