Forest Hill Nursing Center

In addition to faring well overall, this nursing home also earned a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, it received one of our best grades in that category with an A+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was awarded an impressive long-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. In a long-term care environment, 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 patients. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 83.888885 percent of its patients. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. When computing our nursing scores, we assess both nursing hours and the skill levels of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 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 place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next area we assessed is short-term care, in which this facility was given a grade of B-. Although this wound up being its lowest category score, this is nevertheless not a terrible score. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. We weren't able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last metric we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure was below average.