Elmwood Terrace Healthcare Center

While this facility earned a decent overall grade, its inspections grade is notably better than its overall grade. Due to a strong health inspection report this year, it received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. Inspection scores are tied to several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through 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. A few minor dings aren't the end of the world.

In addition, we awarded this nursing home a B in our short-term care category. This is one of our more impressive scores. In calculating our short-term care scores, we size up the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is typically a reliable measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. In determining a facility's nursing score, we assess the number of hours nurses are caring for patients as well as the level of skill of the nurses. This place provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a low total compared with most other nursing homes. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this facility performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

Turning to the final area, this nursing home was awarded a B- in long-term care, which is generally a respectable rating. In our long-term care assessment, we focus on the amount of services offered by a nursing home, along with a few qualitative data points. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinated 96.55173 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.