East Side Nursing Home

On top of earning a great overall score, this facility performed even better in the area of inspections which is based on the nursing home's recent inspections. We awarded it an A+ for this area, which is one of our best scores. Inspection scores are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to this nursing home's list of achievements, it also received a fine long-term care grade. We gave them an elite grade of A in this category. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 94.42231 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facilities second lowest grade is short-term care. We awarded it a grade of D in this category. This is not a very good grade in this area. Our short-term care scores are probably more meaningful for residents in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. This means not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The final item we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics doomed this nursing home's short-term care score.

The final area we looked at was nursing. We gave this facility a grade of D for the area of nursing, making this the facility's least impressive area. Nursing grades are largely tied to the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is not a very impressive figure. Although this facility's nursing hours were below average, it surprised us in some of the qualitative statistics in this category. In particular, we were pleased to see that its residents appear to be experiencing fewer pressure ulcers than most nursing homes.