Davis Health Care Center

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great facility is that it received a strong short-term care score. This turned out to be its best category. In that category, we gave this nursing home an A. Short-term care ratings are crucial for individuals seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional skilled nursing. This includes a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. Our nursing rating is mostly tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home also received a nearly flawless government inspection report. It earned one of our highest grades in that category with an A-. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. 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. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

Turning to the next area, this nursing home was given an acceptable long-term care rating. Even though this wasn't nearly as dominant as several of its other scores, this is truly not a bad grade. Our long-term care ratings are pivotal for prospective residents seeking non-healthcare services such as personal care. One of the data points we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 95.2 percent of its patients. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.