Cox Medical Centers Meyer Orthopedic and Rehab

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it earned an A+ short-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this area. In determining our short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is often a meaningful assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

To add to its high-end achievements in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a score of A for our long-term care rating. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. This nursing home really knocked it out of the park in this area.

In addition, this nursing home also received excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our best scores in that category, with an A. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In our final category, this facility also was awarded an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. This topped off a straight A report card. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of time those nurses spent with patients, in calculating our score in this area. This nursing home averages 0.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.