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One of the reasons this ended up being a quality nursing home is it earned an A+ inspection grade. This is as good as it gets in this critical area. Inspection scores are tied to several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

This nursing home also received an A+ for its nursing grade. In determining a nursing home's nursing rating, we look at the quantity of hours nurses are with residents as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we looked at is short-term care. Adding to its elite profile, this facility also excelled in this category. In fact, we gave it a grade of of A- for the area. In our short-term care score, we try to forge a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 4.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The next area we graded was long-term care. This facility was given a strong long-term care score in our assessment, with a B-. Although this is not as dominant as several of its other grades, this is nevertheless a respectable score for that category. In crafting these long-term care grades, we assess the facility's personal care services. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is an above average statistic. This nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.