Cerenity Care Center on Humboldt

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. The nursing score analyzes several factors, most of which are associated with nursing hours. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home 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 country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning residents even once per day.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple relatively minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home also was dominant in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a score of A-. Few facilities performed better in this area. Short-term care grades are generally used to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to provide good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The last category we analyzed is long-term care. We gave this facility one of our more favorable scores in that area, with a grade of B. Although this is not as dominant as some of its other scores, it is still an excellent score. For prospective patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 91.25475 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be a few points lower than we expected but still a decent percentage. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.