Eagle Health & Rehabilitation

One of the reasons this ended up being a quality nursing home is that it earned an impressive inspection grade. In fact, inspections is its best category grade. In this area, we awarded it an A+. Inspection scores account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this category tend to have few severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

This facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Nursing scores are primarily tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility received a strong long-term care score as well. We gave it one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care ratings. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 90.15151 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is a few points less than we were hoping for but still a respectable percentage. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The last category we looked at was short-term care, turned out to be this nursing home's least impressive category. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in this area. This really was one of the few dings in a strong profile. In the area of short-term care, we strive to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. We found that this place was subpar in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Finally, we considered the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.