Dow Rummel Village

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors didn't 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.

An additional strong feature for this nursing home is that it was awarded a favorable short-term care score. Indeed, this proved to be its second best category score. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B. In calculating these short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. It doesn't look like this nursing home submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 4.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

We also awarded this facility a decent grade in the category of long-term care, where it received a B-. With our long-term care assessment, we analyze the sheer volume of services offered by a nursing home, along with a handful of qualitative datapoints. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated 90.06622 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is quite a few points less than what we expected. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The final category we assessed was nursing. We gave this facility a B- in that category. When determining a facility's nursing grade, we assess the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home averages just 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.