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We also found that this nursing home excelled in long-term care. We awarded them an A+ in this category. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 92.885376 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be a bit lower than we expected but still a decent figure. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Nursing grades are mostly associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility 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 place 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 generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also earned excellent inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our best grades in that area, with a score of A. Our inspection ratings are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The next area we scored is short-term care, in which this facility was given a grade of B. Believe it or not, this proved to be this nursing home's weakest area. A nursing home is doing something right when their lowest score still beats out most facilities. Our short-term care grades are probably more important for patients in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 4.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.