Eden Rehabilitation Nursing Center

To pair with a strong overall score, we awarded this place a grade of A+ for inspections. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also gave this facility a score of A- for our short-term care score. In determining our short-term care ratings, we size up the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is more often than not a solid measure of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility is also above average in the area of long-term care, where it was given a score of B+. It outperformed most facilities in this area. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.29578 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is often a dangerous health condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not leave this to chance. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility's worst area was nursing, which is the final area we looked at. For this area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D. We would like to to draw your attention to this possible weak link, however, you shouldn't over-emphasize one bad area either. Our nursing grade consists of a handful of components, many of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an alarmingly low total. Unfortunately, this place also didn't fare as well as we hoped in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed for this category.