Community Medical Center Transitional Care

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this nursing home earned near flawless inspections recently. We gave them an A+ in this category. Our inspection grades weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this category typically have very few of these 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.

This facility also was given an A+ short-term care grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to be given multiple A+ category scores. In determining our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This category is generally a useful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 7 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

This nursing home also was given a impressive long-term care score. In fact, this is its third most impressive category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a score of A. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. We were not able to locate information on vaccination rates. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In our last area, we gave this facility an A+ for our nursing rating. This finished off a very favorable report card. In calculating a facility's nursing rating, we assess the number of hours nurses commit to patients as well as the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.