Church Creek

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it earned an A+ in short-term care. Our short-term care grades are probably more critical for residents requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires more skilled nursing services. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 7.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Our inspection grades are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's government inspections. Nursing homes that score well in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its remarkable assessment, this nursing home also received an excellent long-term care score, with a grade of A-. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 78.57143 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is a few points less than we expected but still a decent figure. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In our final area, this facility also was given an impressive nursing score, with a grade of B+. This completed a very favorable report card. Nursing ratings are largely based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of turning residents more often.