Family Health & Rehabilitation Center

On top of earning a strong overall score, this facility also earned an elite short-term care grade. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an impressive grade of A. Our short-term care scores are probably most meaningful for those requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally requires more skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 6.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

In addition, this facility earned top notch government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better grades in that category, with an A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. This wasn't quite as good as some of its other scores, but a grade in this range is not the end of the world. There are several datapoints included in this category. Many of the datapoints relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This place provides only 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure which is well below the national average. Lastly, nursing scores also consider quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses to assist its patients.

The final category we scored is long-term care, where this nursing home was given a grade of B-. This proved to be this nursing home's worst area. This is nevertheless not a bad grade. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinates 97.77778 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.