Emanate Health Inter-Community Hospital

To go along with its strong overall grade, we gave this facility an A for our short-term care rating. Short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we assessed in this area is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Moving on our third category, we awarded this facility a score of A for its long-term care score. This is a first-rate grade. For prospective residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility provided vaccination data. Clearly, this nursing home 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 one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In the last category we assessed, this nursing home was given an impressive grade grade of A- in our nursing category. With this grade, the nursing home wrapped up a straight A report card. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses at the facility, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses worked with residents, in determining our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.