Eden Home

In addition to earning a great overall rating, this nursing home fared even better in our inspections category which is based on the nursing home's recent government inspections. We gave it an A for that area, which is one of our highest grades. Our inspection scores weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this category generally have few of these severe deficiencies. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility was awarded strong marks in the category of long-term care as well. In fact, we gave it one of our most favorable grades in that area with a area of A-. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are kept in good health. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is much higher than the average nursing home. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. While this wasn't quite as good as some of its other category grades, this isn't a bad score either. Our nursing grade includes many datapoints, but the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a somewhat alarming figure which is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place actually fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In fact, it scored well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the number of hours of care provided.

The final area we looked at was short-term care, ended up being this facility's worst category. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in this area. This was one of just a couple of weak points on an otherwise impressive profile. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.