Early Memorial Nursing Facility

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our long-term care grade. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a dangerous health condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home also performed well in inspections, which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. We gave it an A- for that area. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't consider 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.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. While this didn't quite match its scores in some of the categories discussed above, this is still a decent score. Our nursing rating consists of a handful of factors, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this facility actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a reliable indicator that a facility has quality controls in place.

The final area we analyzed was short-term care, in which this nursing home was awarded a grade of B-. Although this proved to be its lowest category score, this is nevertheless not the end of the world. In our short-term care assessment, we strive to craft a fair gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. We were not able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below average.