Community Memorial Health Center

In addition to a phenomenal overall grade, this facility also received A+ nursing grade. Our nursing score analyzes the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. 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 place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of turning residents more often.

We also would like to alert you to the fact that this facility was awarded an impressive score of A in our long-term care category. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia can be a dangerous illness for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not leave this to chance. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The third category we analyzed is short-term care. Contributing to its superb resume, this nursing home also performed well in this category. In fact, we awarded it a of A- for that category. Our short-term care scores are considered to be more critical for individuals requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually requires more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this nursing home also excelled in inspections, where it received a score of A-. This topped off a straight A report card for this facility. Arguably the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.