Corwin Center at Emerald Heights

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home excelled in the area of short-term care, where it received an A. Short-term care grades are crucial for individuals requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing. This means a vast spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we considered in this category is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we gave this nursing home an A-. The nursing score weighs a handful of datapoints, however, the main one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning a resident even once per day.

Turning to another of this nursing home's strengths, it also received a very impressive inspection rating. Inspections proved to be one of its best grades. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Our inspection scores are tied to datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

The next category we analyzed is long-term care. This nursing home received a very good long-term care rating this year, with a grade of B-. Even though this isn't as strong as some of its other category grades, this is nevertheless a respectable score for that category. For residents seeking a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home provided the vaccine to a relatively low 87.974686 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this place keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.