E Dene Moore Care Center

In addition to performing well overall, this nursing home earned a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, it earned one of our best scores in that area with an A+. Our inspection scores are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. It does not look like we have deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to point out the fact that this nursing home was given a top-shelf grade of A in our short-term care area. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

We also want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was given a strong score of A in our long-term care area. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are kept in good health. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Switching gears to the next category, this facility also performed admirably in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category. This topped off truly elite profile. We assessed the licensure of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the number of hours the nurses spent with residents, in determining our grade in this category. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This facility fared well in some of the quality measures we looked at. For example, in terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this facility performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented with better nursing care.