Community Medical Center Transitional Care

We also found that this nursing home excelled at short-term care. We awarded them an elite grade of A+ in this area. Short-term care ratings are crucial for residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home also earned an A+ inspection score, making it one of the rare places to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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.

Turning our third category, we gave this nursing home a score of A for its long-term care grade. This is a very strong rating. For patients in need of a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Unfortunately, we were not able to find this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In the last category we analyzed, this nursing home was given an impressive grade grade of A in our nursing category. With this score, the nursing home rounded out a straight A profile. When computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the number of hours nurses spend with patients as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.