Copper Ridge

To go along with its relatively modest overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A few relatively minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This facility also received a strong short-term care grade. As a matter of fact, we awarded them a grade of B+ in this category, which happens to be one of our better. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home, which as an area this facility performed much more favorably. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes with 62.6 percent of its residents returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most nursing homes.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. The nursing grade includes several subcategories. The most important one is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 4.1 hours per resident per day. This is well above average. Lastly, we also baked a few quality-based metrics into our nursing ratings. This place was relatively weak in two of the major metrics we looked at, with below average marks for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Moving on to the final area, this facility really did not perform well. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in long-term care, this was this nursing home's weakest category grade. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means the facility did not perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. This nursing home's vaccination statistics were a bit weaker than some of the other data points in this area, such as its number of nursing hours per resident. It provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 80.70175 percent of its patients. We would love to see some improvement in this area in the future. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.54 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.