Community Care Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area tend to have few severe deficiencies. 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its impressive resume, this facility also performed well in our short-term care category. In fact, we gave it a grade of A for that category. Our short-term care grades are crucial for individuals seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. When calculating our nursing grades, we weigh both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to the next area, this nursing home was awarded a strong long-term care rating. We gave it an A- in this category, rounding out a straight A profile. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 98.23009 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to minimize negative health outcomes for the senior population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep 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.