Compass Post Acute Rehabilitation

One of the reasons this place ended up being a great nursing home is that it earned an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this area. Our inspection grades are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also received a top-shelf short-term care score. Indeed, this turned out to be this nursing home's second strongest category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a score of A-. Short-term care grades are important for individuals needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Contributing to its fine assessment, this facility also received a dominant long-term care grade, with a grade of A-. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to the fourth area, this facility was awarded a decent nursing score. Even though this isn't nearly as strong as several of its other scores, this is really not a bad grade. The nursing grade considers many data points. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, our nursing ratings also factor in quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. While this facility didn't have as many nursing hours per resident as many of the other facilities we assessed, it was still better than average in the area of avoiding major falls. This is generally a good indicator of how carefully a facility's nursing staff is tending to its patients. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and safety protocols are in place.