Cottonwood Nursing and Rehabilitation

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Few facilities performed better in this area. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider 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.

This facility also was awarded a positive long-term care grade. Indeed, we gave it a B+ in this category, which happens to be one of our better. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 97.97298 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The third best category we awarded this facility in any category came in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a C. Short-term care ratings are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. It doesn't appear that this facility provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The final metric we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The last area we assessed is nursing, which is this facility's least impressive area. It received a lowly F in this area, which is obviously very disappointing. The nursing rating assesses many components, however, the main consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This place provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these metrics to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.