The Gables on Pelham Senior Living

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned a grade of A. Few facilities performed better in this area. Arguably the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report, which is still very impressive. Overall, this place had a pretty strong inspection report.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. Our nursing rating is largely associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, although this facility got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of our quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared well in this metric.

This nursing home received its third most favorable category grade in the category of long-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of C in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable grade. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. One of the datapoints we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 98.809525 percent of its patients. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last category we graded is short-term care. We awarded this facility a grade of C in this category. Our short-term care ratings are crucial for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. We found that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. The facility supplied fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is still important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.