Community Subacute and Transitional Care Center

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an A-. Few facilities fared better in this area. We analyzed the levels of nurses at the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses worked with residents, in computing our score in this category. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Among this facility's other accomplishments is its first-rate long-term care score. We awarded them one of our strongest scores in that category, with a grade of A-. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 95.2381 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home performed well in our short-term care category also. Indeed, we gave it a score of A- for that area, which happens to be one of our most elite scores. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to provide highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric 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 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Moving on to the last category of inspections, this was not one of this nursing home's better grades. Inspection grades are based on a nursing home's recent government inspection reports. We gave this facility a grade of C in this category. Our inspection grades are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This facility had 4 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but none were category G through L deficiencies. This indicates CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent danger to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.