Denali Center

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. In computing these short-term care ratings, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 7.2 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Nursing ratings are mostly tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next area we assessed is long-term care. Adding to its dominant resume, this facility also performed well in this category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of of A- for the area. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 96.456696 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia tragically can be a life threatening health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this nursing home also excelled in inspections, where it earned an impressive grade of A-. This wrapped up a straight A report card for this nursing home. Our inspection scores account for several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this category tend to have few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.