Dj Jacobetti Home for Veterans

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. We analyzed the licensure of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time those nurses spent with patients, in computing our rating in this area. This nursing home provides 0.6 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 generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

On the list of its many high-end scores, this facility received an excellent long-term care score. In fact, it received a grade of A in that area. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After considering the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.57806 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a life or death condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility does not take any chances. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility also excelled in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a score of A. Few nursing homes received a better grade in this area. In computing these short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to formulate a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

In the final area we looked at, we found that this nursing home earned a solid government inspection report this year as well, with few major dings from government inspectors. It earned a decent score in our inspection category with a B. This facility didn't have any major weak links. Our inspection grades account for several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this category generally have few of these severe deficiencies. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.