Ceres Postacute Care

One of the reasons this place is a quality facility is that it received a very impressive inspection score. Inspections turned out to be its best category. In this area, we awarded it an A-. Inspection scores are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few relatively minor dings are not the end of the world.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an A-. Our nursing rating is based on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of skill of those nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility was given a strong long-term care score as well. We gave it one of our higher grades in that area with a score of B. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.31035 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the senior population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The last area we looked at is short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a B-. Our short-term care grades are thought to be most critical for individuals needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. This means not just nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. It does not look like this facility provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we assessed the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.