Davis Place

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. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

Adding to its strong accomplishments in other areas, we gave this facility a grade of A- for our long-term care rating. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. This nursing home fared favorably enough in these measures to receive a quality grade in this area.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. There are a number of subcategories included in this grade. Most of these subcategories relate to staffing levels. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed 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 nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving residents even once per day.

The last area we analyzed is short-term care, in which this nursing home received a grade of B. Believe it or not, this ended up being this nursing home's worst category. A facility is doing something right when it's worst grade still is superior to most other nursing homes. Our short-term care grades are critical for patients looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.