Cloverlodge Care Center

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this place excelled in our inspections category, where it received an A+. Not many facilities fared better in this category. Our inspection grades are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility is also strong in the category of long-term care, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most facilities in this category. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 98.38709 percent of its patients, which is significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next category we graded was short-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a decent grade of B-. In determining our short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to formulate a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. We weren't able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.

The last category we analyzed was nursing. We gave it a C in that category. This is not a bad grade in this category. When determining our nursing grades, we factor in both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, our nursing scores also factor in some quality-focused measures. We especially like to look at the percent of patients who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these metrics are measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care can reduce these problems.