Coral Desert Rehabilitation and Care

We also found that this facility excelled in our short-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Short-term care grades are critical for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 6.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

In addition, this nursing home also received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that area with an A. Our inspection scores are tied to 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. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Building on its fine resume, this nursing home also was given a dominant long-term care score, with a score of A. For patients in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility submitted information about vaccinations. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to the next area, this nursing home also performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we gave it an A- in this area. This rounded out truly elite report card. When computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses commit to residents as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.