Clear View Memory Care and Rehabilitation

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an A+ long-term care grade. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is much higher than the average nursing home. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In addition, this nursing home also received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that area with a score of A. Our inspection ratings are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's government inspections. Places that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection 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.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. We looked at the licensure of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses worked with patients, in determining our score in this area. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving patients at least once a day.

The final category we assessed was short-term care, where this facility received an A-. This finished off a very favorable profile. Not many nursing homes received an A- or better in all four categories. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.