De Luna Health and Rehabilitation Center

In addition to receiving an elite overall grade, this nursing home earned an A+ inspection score. This is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the highest complements we can pay to a facility. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. We were not able to track down deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To add to its top-shelf achievements in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our long-term care rating. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. This nursing home is head and heels above most nursing homes in this category.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our nursing score is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of skill of the nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In the final category we scored, this facility was awarded a very strong grade of A- in our short-term care category. With this grade, the facility wrapped up a straight A report card. With our short-term care rating, we try to create a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who returned home from this facility. We found that 6.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.