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.

Additionally, this nursing home also was awarded favorable long-term care grades in our assessment. In fact, we gave it one of our better grades in that category, with a score of B+. When facilities receive this type of score in long-term care it is a good sign for resident care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 99.15612 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next area we assessed is short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a decent grade of B-. Short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. We weren't able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last metric we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.

Switching gears to our fourth category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D for our nursing category. This was the nursing home's least impressive category rating. Sadly, this grade pulled down the nursing home's overall grade to some degree. There are several subcategories included in this grade. Most of these factors reflect nurse staffing. This particular place offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This statistic is far below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This place performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.