The Center at Eden Hill

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. In determining our short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to formulate a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we considered in this area is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an A. Our nursing score analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures 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 facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning patients at least once a day.

This facility has earned near flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this category. Inspection ratings are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

The final category we looked at turned out to be this facility's weakest area. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still gave it an acceptable grade of C for long-term care. In our long-term care score, we focus more on the sheer volume of care provided by a facility, as well as a few quality data points. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. We were not able to find this place's vaccination data. Lastly, this place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.