Delta Grande Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall grade in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best grades in this area with an A+. Our inspection ratings weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this category usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

An additional strength of this nursing home is its elite score in long-term care. We gave it one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a score of A-. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 87.623764 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next category we looked at is short-term care, where this nursing home's score wasn't nearly as impressive as a few of its other scores. In that area, we gave this facility an F. Short-term care ratings are crucial for patients looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. We found that this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the data we assessed. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

This nursing home's worst category is nursing, which is the last category we scored. We gave it a lowly F in this category. Even with multiple respectable scores in other categories, this score is still disappointing so we wanted to point it out. When calculating a nursing home's nursing grade, we weigh the number of hours nurses are seeing patients and the level of skill of the nurses. With a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily, this facility's nurse staffing levels were significantly below average. In addition to receiving below average marks for nursing hours, this facility was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and found this nursing home was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this statistic.