The Waterview Shores

To go along with its strong overall performance, we gave this nursing home an A- for the area of inspections. Inspection scores are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor dings are not something to panic about.

Building on its strong performance in other areas, we gave this nursing home an B+ for our nursing rating. Our nursing score weighs quite a few subcategories, many of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also was awarded an impressive short-term care score. In fact, we gave it an above average grade of B+ in this category. In crafting our short-term care scores, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. It does not appear that this nursing home provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The final metric we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Switching gears to our fourth category, we gave this facility a grade of D in long-term care. This is the facility's weakest category rating. Unfortunately, this score hurt the nursing home's overall grade a bit. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. We were disappointed to learn that this nursing home vaccinated a relatively low 82.75862 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.