Forest Hills Care and Rehabilitation Center

The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our higher grades in that area, with a grade of A-. This is a much better score than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. Inspection scores account for several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

Another one of this nursing home's more impressive category scores was in the area of long-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a B. It actually outpaced most nursing homes in this area. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.11504 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also earned an elite nursing rating. In fact, we gave this nursing home an D. In computing a nursing home's nursing score, we weigh the number of hours nurses are caring for residents and the level of skill of the nurses. This facility offered only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is not a very impressive figure. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

This facility's least impressive area is short-term care, which is the final area we assessed. It received a lowly F for this category. Despite a few acceptable grades in other areas, this grade is still alarming so we felt obligated to make sure you are aware. In our short-term care rating, we seek to forge a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze a facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Based on its grade in this area, we weren't stunned to find that this place was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected to find. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.1 percent of its residents returning home.