Eden Springs Nursing and Rehabilitation East

This nursing home received a quality overall score as described above, but we especially wanted to point out its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We gave them an A- in this area. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

We also awarded this facility a grade of A- for our short-term care score. Our short-term care grades are believed to be most important for those needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure 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 facility's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. Our nursing score weighs many datapoints, however, the main one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home's weakest area is long-term care, which is the final category we assessed. It received an abysmal F for this area. In spite of a few impressive scores in other categories, this grade is still a bit disappointing so we would like to to make a note of it. For patients looking for a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 97.22222 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is more than the average nursing home. To our surprise, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.