Cherry Blossom Health and Rehabilitation

On top of earning a great overall rating, this nursing home performed even better in the area of inspections which is based on the facility's recent inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for this area, which is one of our best scores. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

An additional strong feature for this nursing home is that it was awarded a favorable long-term care score. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category score. In this area, we gave this facility a grade of B+. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 76.41509 percent of its residents. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home is also above average in the area of short-term care, where it received a score of B. It outperformed most facilities in this area. In calculating these short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we assessed in this area is the number of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The last category we analyzed was nursing. We gave this facility a solid grade in that category, with a B-. While this wasn't as favorable as some of its other scores, it is nevertheless not a poor grade. Our nursing rating is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which is not an impressive total. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused measures. We like to look at the percentage of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. These data points are decent measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care can reduce these problems.