Five Star Foulk Manor North

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. The nursing grade includes numerous factors. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home boasts a really impressive 4.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day, of which a significant portion was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. This is among the better totals of nursing hours we found. On top of offering high levels of care, this facility also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. For example, in terms of the percentage of its patients suffering falls resulting in serious injury, this place performed as well as any facility the country. Preventing serious falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, this nursing home also received a nearly flawless government inspection report. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that category with a score of A-. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite insignificant. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Compounding its high-end profile, this facility also received a strong short-term care grade, with a grade of A-. Short-term care grades are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. This nursing home elevated its score in this area by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than a typical facility. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

In our final category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for its long-term care score. This completed a very favorable profile. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to assessing the impressive volume of care provided by aids and other staff at this nursing home, we also were impressed by the nursing home's record for vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98.50746 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. This combination proved to be effective as this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.13 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.