Cedar Ridge Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center

It should also be noted that this nursing home's inspection grade outpaced its overall grade. We awarded it a B+ for its inspections grade, which is one of our better scores. Inspection ratings account for several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area generally have few severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Based on this, we had a generally favorable view of this facility's inspections.

We also awarded this nursing home a strong score in long-term care. This nursing home received a grade of B in this category, which happens to be one of our more impressive scores. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 99.59839 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home's second lowest score was short-term care, where it received just a D in that category. This is a well below average grade. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is considered to be a meaningful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. Based on its score in this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the figures we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

The final area we scored was nursing, turned out to be this facility's weakest category. We awarded this facility a D in this area. We looked at the licensure of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses worked with patients, in calculating our score in this category. This nursing home averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is well below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This place fared well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.