Concordia at Sumner

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home really excelled in the category of short-term care, where it earned a grade of A. Our short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A-. Our nursing category is based on quite a few subcategories, many of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also earned top notch government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our more favorable scores in that area, with an impressive grade of B+. Our inspection scores are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

The final area we looked at is long-term care. We awarded this facility a solid grade in this category, with a grade of C. While this was not as strong as many of this nursing home's other scores, it is still a middle of the pack score. Our long-term care ratings are more critical for people needing more traditional assistance associated with personal care. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Fortunately, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.823524 percent of its patients. This facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.