Chambers Pointe Health Care Center

To go along with its strong overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A for our nursing rating. We looked at the qualifications of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses were with residents, in computing our score in this category. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also excelled in inspections. We awarded it an A for that area. Our inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this category usually have few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

This facility is also above average in the area of short-term care, where it was given a score of B. It performed more favorably than most facilities in this area. In computing our short-term care grades, we analyze a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is frequently a reliable measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 4.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The final area we looked at turned out to be this facility's poorest area. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still gave it a decent grade of C for long-term care. In the area of long-term care, we focus on the quantity of care offered by a nursing home, as opposed to more medically-intensive services. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 99.46809 percent of its residents, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. This facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.