Cisne Rehabilitation & Health Center

This nursing home received a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially would like to point out its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded it an impressive grade of A in this area. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an B+. When determining a facility's nursing rating, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to another strength for this nursing home, we gave them one of our more favorable scores in our short-term care category as well, with a grade of B. Our short-term care grades are presumably most critical for individuals requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The next category we analyzed is long-term care, which proved to be this nursing home's worst category. We awarded this nursing home a D in this area. Unfortunately, this category pulled down the facility's overall grade to some degree. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is a bad sign for resident care and it may mean that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 91.25 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is somewhat less than we expected but still a respectable percentage. Surprisingly, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.