Coral Desert Rehabilitation and Care

On top of earning a strong overall grade, this nursing home also received excellent health inspections recently. We awarded it one of our highest grades in that area, with an A. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also would like to note the fact that this nursing home received a strong grade of A in our short-term care area. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 6.9 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

The third category we assessed is long-term care. Adding to its high-end profile, this facility also performed well in that category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of of A in the area. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. We were not able to track down this facility's vaccination rates. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Switching gears to the last category, this facility also performed well in our nursing category. We awarded it a B+ for that area. This finalized a first-rate report card. There are a number of criteria within this grade. Many of the criteria relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these data points as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.