Corwin Center at Emerald Heights

In addition to earning a great overall grade, this nursing home excelled in nursing. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that area. Our nursing grade analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home also received a impressive short-term care grade. In fact, this is this facility's second most impressive category grade. In that area, this facility received a grade of A. In computing our short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Another impressive feature of this facility is its inspection grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite minor. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the final area, we gave this facility a grade of A- for our long-term care score. This rounded out a very favorable profile. For residents looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. After we finished assessing the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 90.06211 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, at least this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.