Complete Care at Linwood

It should also be noted that this nursing home's inspection grade outpaced its overall score. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ for its inspections grade, which is one of our better scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being quite minor. This nursing home was hit with 8 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

We also gave this nursing home an impressive grade in short-term care. This nursing home received a B in this area, which happens to be one of our higher scores. Short-term care grades are typically employed to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home received its third highest category grade in the area of long-term care. We gave this nursing home a B- in this category, which is a decent score. Our long-term care scores are meaningful for patients in need of personal care. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We discovered that this facility vaccinated a relatively low 79.74026 percent of its residents, which is somewhat concerning. Nevertheless, this nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The final category we looked at is nursing. This nursing home was awarded a grade of B- for the area. In computing our nursing ratings, we assess both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below the national average. Finally, we also baked some quality-based metrics into our nursing scores. This place was relatively weak in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its patients' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally decent measures of the quality of nursing care offered.