Christian Rest Home Assoc

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. Nursing scores are based in large part on quantity of nursing care available. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also earned an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the few places to receive multiple A+'s in our categories. This is based on the place's inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the biggest complements we can pay to a nursing home. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors 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.

This facility also was given a very strong long-term care grade. This actually turned out to be its third best category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a score of A. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.67427 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In our last area, we gave this facility an A+ for its short-term care score. This rounded out an elite report card. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.