Eliza Jennings Home

One of the reasons this place is a quality nursing home is that it received a very impressive inspection score. Inspections is its best category. In this area, we gave this facility an A. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

Adding to this facility's list of strengths, it also was awarded a first-rate short-term care score. We awarded them an elite grade of A- in this category. Our short-term care grades are believed to be most critical for folks requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates more highly-skilled nursing services. This means not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. It does not appear that this nursing home provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The final item we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 6.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Turning to another strength for this nursing home, we gave them one of our higher scores in our long-term care category as well, with a grade of B. For patients in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 93.86667 percent of its residents. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next area we looked at was nursing. We awarded this facility a decent grade in that area, with a C. Although this was not as dominant as some of this nursing home's other scores, it is nevertheless not a terrible score. Nursing scores are heavily correlated with quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a relatively low total compared with most facilities. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place.