The Folsom Center for Rehabilitation & Healthcare

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Inspection ratings are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its elite performance in other areas, we awarded this facility a grade of A for its long-term care grade. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective 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 residents. This nursing home impressed us in this category.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Our nursing score includes a handful of subcategories, many of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 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 nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final area we scored is short-term care, where this nursing home received a grade of B. Believe it or not, this proved to be this nursing home's weakest category. A facility is doing something right when their worst score still rates higher than most other nursing homes. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.