Christian Rest Home Assoc

We also would like to emphasize the fact that this nursing home excelled in our nursing grade. We awarded them an A+ in this area. Our nursing grade includes many factors. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home also earned an A+ inspection score, making it one of the rare facilities to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. This grade is based on the place's inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the highest complements we can pay to a nursing home. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area tend to have very few severe deficiencies. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS didn't deem 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.

The next area we looked at was long-term care. Adding to its superb resume, this facility also excelled in this category. In fact, it received a grade of of A for the area. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 99.68848 percent of its patients, which is significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In the last category, this nursing home also was awarded a very strong short-term care score, with an A-. This rounded out a first-rate report card. Our short-term care scores are presumably more important for individuals needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.