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-. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 97.695854 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous ailment for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home does not leave this to chance. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on to another strength for this facility, it also earned an elite nursing grade. We gave this facility a score of D. There are a host of subcategories within this grade. Most of these criteria reflect the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. With only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily, this facility's nurse staffing levels were well below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This place performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

This facility's worst area was short-term care, which is the final area we scored. It received a lowly F in this category. In spite of a few solid scores in other areas, this grade is still concerning so we felt obligated to make sure you are aware. Our short-term care ratings are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.