Eastside Health & Rehab Center

This facility received a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area usually have few severe deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

Another one of this nursing home's better category grades came in the category of long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a B. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. After we finished assessing the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is too frequently a life threatening health condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility doesn't take any chances. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home earned a strong nursing score as well. It earned one of our better scores in that category with an above average grade of F. There are quite a few criteria included in this area. Most of these factors are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

The next category we analyzed is short-term care. It received an abysmal F for this area, which is a very poor score. This is obviously a major concern. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Based on its score in this area, we weren't stunned to learn that this facility was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 2.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.