Eldora Specialty Care

On top of being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility performed well in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of A+. Very few places fared this well in this area. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our nursing score is mostly associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility is also above average in the area of long-term care, where it was awarded a score of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this area. When facilities receive this kind of grade in this category it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.3007 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia tragically can be a life or death health condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to our fourth category, this nursing home was awarded an extremely favorable short-term care grade. Even though this isn't nearly as impressive as many of its other grades, this is still one of the more impressive scores we offer. With our short-term care category, we strive to create a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess the facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.