Cerenity Residence on Humboldt

In addition to being a strong facility overall, this facility also excelled in our short-term care category, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Our short-term care grades are arguably more important for those needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 6.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Compounding its impressive achievements in other areas, we gave this nursing home a score of A for its long-term care score. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. This place really excelled in this area.

Another quality feature of this facility is its inspection score. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A-. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite minor. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to the next category, this facility was awarded a strong nursing grade. In fact, we gave it an A- in this category, resulting in this facility receiving straight A's. The nursing category analyzes a handful of factors, most of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as reliable indicators of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.