Evenglow Lodge

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of short-term care. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To provide highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 6.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that category, we awarded this facility an A+. Our nursing grade features numerous datapoints. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning residents even once per day.

Turning the page to our third area, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for its long-term care score. This is a first-rate rating. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Lastly, this nursing home has received near flawless inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this category. This is one of the few places in the state to receive an A- or better in every category. Inspection grades account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this category generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not 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.