Emanate Health Inter-Community Hospital

We also found that this facility excelled in our short-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Short-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 6.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Adding to this nursing home's impressive resume, we awarded this facility a grade of A for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's inspections. Facilities that score well in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The next category we analyzed is long-term care. Adding to its top-shelf resume, this nursing home also performed well in this category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of of A in the area. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. We weren't able to track down information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In the final area, we awarded this facility an A for its nursing score. This rounded out a very impressive profile. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with quality and quantity of nursing care. This particular nursing home provided 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.