Friendship Home Association

With an overall grade this high, it should come as no surprise that this facility performed well in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple relatively minor dings aren't the end of the world.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that category. Our nursing rating consists of quite a few subcategories, most of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of turning residents more often.

This nursing home also was awarded a favorable long-term care score. Indeed, we awarded it an above average score of B+ in this area. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than most nursing homes. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In the final category we graded, this nursing home was awarded a very favorable grade of B+ in our short-term care category. With this grade, the nursing home finished off a very impressive profile. With our short-term care grade, we strive to create a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the number of patients who returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.