East Side Nursing Home

We want to point out that this facility outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent government inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our highest grades in this area with a grade of A+. Our inspection ratings are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government 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.

Another one of this nursing home's higher category grades was in the category of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+. It actually outpaced most facilities in this category. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 98.69565 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a dangerous illness for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not take any chances. 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 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's second least favorable category is short-term care, where it received just a D in that category. This is a well below average grade. Our short-term care ratings are considered to be most critical for folks in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms 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 last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics sunk this facility's short-term care grade.

Switching gears to our fourth category, this facility really did not perform very well. Due to a very poor grade of F in nursing, this is this nursing home's poorest grade. There are many subcategories within this category. Many of these subcategories reflect the quantity of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This number is significantly below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.