Cypress Cove Center

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Our inspection grades are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors did not deem 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 received a high-end short-term care grade. This actually is its second most impressive category score. In that category, we gave this facility a score of A-. Our short-term care grades are critical for residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility also was given a very strong long-term care grade. Indeed, this is this nursing home's third best category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A-. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 93.53612 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is a bit less than we expected but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In the last area, we awarded this facility a grade of A+ for our nursing rating. This finished off a first-rate profile. When calculating our nursing ratings, we weigh both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This facility provided 0.3 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 areas as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.