Meyer Orthopedic & Rehabilitation Hospital

We also found that this facility excelled in our short-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. In calculating these short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to formulate a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

To complement its dominant achievements in other areas, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for its long-term care grade. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal 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 place is off the charts in this category.

Another impressive feature of this nursing home is its inspection grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an impressive grade of A. Our inspection ratings are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. 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 the last category, this nursing home also was awarded an impressive nursing grade, with an A-. This wrapped up an elite profile. Our nursing score assesses the facility's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of skill of those nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as reliable measures of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.