Community Place

In addition to being an elite facility overall, this facility also excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A+. Very few nursing homes fared this well in this category. Inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area tend to have very 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 performance in other areas, we awarded this facility a score of A for our long-term care rating. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 93.069305 percent of its residents. This is a bit lower than we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. We assessed the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of time the nurses were with patients, in determining our score in this category. This particular nursing home provided 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 facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning patients more often.

The last category we assessed was short-term care. We gave this nursing home a decent grade in that area, with a B-. Although this wasn't as favorable as several of this nursing home's other scores, it is nevertheless not a major area of concern. Our short-term care grade is generally used to gauge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. We weren't able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.