Cumbernauld Village

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an A. Our nursing rating is based on a handful of datapoints, but the most important consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a policy of turning a resident more frequently.

In addition, this nursing home also received favorable short-term care scores this year. In fact, we awarded it one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a grade of B+. Our short-term care grade is often used to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

This nursing home also earned top notch government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better grades in that area, with an impressive grade of B+. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be 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. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

The final category we rated was long-term care. This nursing home was given an impressive long-term care score in our assessment, with a B. This nursing home really doesn't have any weaknesses. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a great way to minimize negative health outcomes for the nursing home population. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.