Falls Run Nursing and Rehab Center

In addition to earning a strong overall score, this nursing home performed well in our inspections category, which is based on the facility's inspection reports. In fact, we gave it an A for this area. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

Adding to its fine assessment, this nursing home also was given a superb short-term care score, with a score of A-. Our short-term care scores are meaningful for residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.2 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. We looked at the skill-level of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time those nurses were with residents, in calculating our score in this area. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final area we looked at was long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a B. Believe it or not, this is this facility's worst area. A facility could be doing a lot worse when their poorest grade still is superior to most facilities. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. One of the data points we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.