Clear View Memory Care & Rehabilitation

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this place also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of A. Few facilities performed better in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively insignificant. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. Our nursing rating is mostly associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures 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 facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of moving residents more often.

Turning our next area, this nursing home received a top-shelf long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- in that category. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Moving on to the last area, this nursing home received an extremely favorable short-term care rating. Even though this is not as good as several of its other scores, this is nevertheless one of the better scores we offer. Our short-term care scores are meaningful for individuals seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. It does not look like this facility submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The final metric we assessed in this area is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.