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We also would like to point out the fact that this facility has earned nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this area. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among its many impressive grades, this nursing home was awarded a top-shelf short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a score of A in this category. Short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final item we considered in this category is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Turning our third area, this facility was awarded first-rate long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a score of A- in this category. For long-term care residents, the facility's 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 patients. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We were not able to track down information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to our next area, this nursing home received an excellent nursing rating. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ in that category, wrapping up one of our better report cards. Our nursing grade looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as good measures of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.