Eagle's Trace Senior Living

In addition to earning a great overall score, this facility received an A+ in the area of short-term care. Our short-term care scores are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 6.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A. Not many nursing homes performed as well in this area. Our inspection ratings are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspections. Facilities that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. When determining a facility's nursing score, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses commit to residents and the level of skill of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving a resident more often.

In the final category we analyzed, this nursing home was given a very favorable grade of B+ in our long-term care category. With this score, the facility rounded out a first-rate report card. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. After we finished assessing the amount of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 98.9011 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly can be a dangerous illness for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility does not take any chances. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.