Five Points Nursing and Rehabilitation

This nursing home received a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to emphasize its excellent health inspection reports in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this category usually have few severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, it does not look like we were able to find deficiency data for this facility. We would like to have more data for this nursing home. Without having access to complete information regarding deficiencies, it is challenging to fully assess this nursing home in the inspections category.

We also gave this nursing home a favorable grade in long-term care. This nursing home received a B in this area, which happens to be one of our more impressive scores. For long-term care residents, the 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. We want to point out that we seem to be missing some data on this nursing home's long-term care statistics, but we were satisfied with the data we found.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. In determining a facility's nursing rating, we assess the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, while this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in a few of our quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this metric.

The last area we graded was short-term care. We awarded it a C in this category. This is a perfectly acceptable grade in this category. Short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. We weren't able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this place. The last measure we looked at in this area is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. This figure was below average.