Claru Deville Nursing Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also awarded this nursing home a score of A for our long-term care score. For residents seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 60.48387 percent of its patients. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home's next most favorable category is short-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this category. This is essentially a middle of the pack grade in this category. Our short-term care scores are important for people needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. It does not look like this facility provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The last measure we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Moving on to the last category, we gave this nursing home a D in nursing. This was the facility's least impressive category score. Of course, this score pulled down the facility's overall profile to a certain degree. Nursing scores are based in large part on levels of nurse staffing. This particular facility offered just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is quite a bit below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.