Community Pride Care Center

One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received a very impressive grade in inspections. In fact, inspections ended up being its best category. In this area, we gave this nursing home an A. Our inspection scores are tied to datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies 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.

Adding to its strong assessment, this facility also was awarded a strong long-term care grade, with a grade of A-. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 95.15151 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is too frequently a dangerous ailment for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility doesn't take any chances. 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 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home also received a impressive short-term care grade. In fact, this ended up being this nursing home's third best category grade. In that category, this facility received a score of A-. Short-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Switching gears to our next area, this facility also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we gave it an A- in this category. This rounded out truly elite report card. There are quite a few factors included in this category. Many of these criteria reflect levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also factored a few quality-based metrics into our nursing grades. This place was relatively weak in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.