Discovery Rehabilitation and Living

In addition to performing well in its overall score, this nursing home received a first-rate nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in that area. Our nursing rating is based on a number of subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place 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 many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Contributing to its strong resume, this nursing home also performed well in our long-term care category. In fact, it received a score of A for that category. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is often a deadly illness for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Building on its remarkable profile, this nursing home also was awarded a superb short-term care score, with a score of A. Short-term care grades are generally used to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To have highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This facility has received near flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. This is one of the few facilities in the state to receive an A- or better in all four categories. Inspection ratings 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. This facility was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.