Cerenity Care Center on Humboldt

In addition to performing well overall, this facility received a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, it received one of our best scores in that category with an A-. Our inspection grades are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its elite resume, this facility also excelled in our long-term care area. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 95.08772 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A- in our nursing category. We assessed the skill-level of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses were with patients, in calculating our rating in this area. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The last category we analyzed is short-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. In the category of short-term care, we strive to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 3 percent of this facility's patients returned home.