Cheyenne Reg Medical Center Transitional Care Unit

In addition to being a great nursing home overall, it also earned A+ inspections in recent years. Its inspections are nearly flawless. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this facility was given high marks in the category of short-term care. For this reason, it received one of our highest scores in that category with a score of A+. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The last measure we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 7.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Building on its fine profile, this nursing home also was given a strong long-term care score, with a score of A. For residents looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In our last category, this facility also was given an excellent nursing rating, with an A. This completed a very favorable profile. In determining a facility's nursing rating, we weigh the number of hours nurses are with patients and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home averages 1.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.