Cypress Glen Retirement Commun

On top of receiving a great overall rating, this facility received an A+ inspection grade. This score is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the highest complements we can pay to a facility. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite minor. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To add to its top-shelf performance in other areas, we gave this facility a grade of A for our long-term care rating. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. This facility is off the charts in this category.

This nursing home also was awarded a very impressive short-term care grade. This actually is this nursing home's third best category score. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Short-term care grades are typically employed to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who returned home from this facility. We found that 5.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

In our last category, this nursing home also was given a first-rate nursing rating, with a grade of A-. This finished off a very strong report card. There are a variety of factors included in this category. Many of the criteria are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place 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.