Delmar Gardens West

Although we gave this place a poor overall score, we gave it a grade of B for our inspections rating. This is the result of the facility receiving a quality government inspection report this year. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is generally in your best interest to avoid nursing homes that have too many severe deficiencies. While this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

We also wanted to point out this nursing home's low-end short-term care grade where it was given an F. Our short-term care grade is often used to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. With a grade in this range for this area, we weren't stunned to discover this place was below average in multiple staffing areas we focus on. In fact, it supplied significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other facilities. The final item we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.7 percent of its residents returning home.

In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of nursing care. Our nursing grade analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This facility offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is an alarmingly low total. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these metrics to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to the last category, this facility really did not fare very well in this category either. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in long-term care, this is about as bad as it gets. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means the facility did not perform well in our measures relating to resident care. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated just 64.34109 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.