Friendship Home Association

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our nursing rating includes a handful of subcategories, many of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place 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 country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of moving residents more frequently.

Turning to inspections, this facility excelled in that area, which is based on the nursing home's government inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

This nursing home also was awarded a favorable short-term care score. Indeed, we awarded it an above average score of B+ in this area. Our short-term care scores are probably more critical for people in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Switching gears to our next category, this nursing home was awarded a very strong long-term care score. We awarded it a B+ in that area, completing one of our more favorable report cards. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are kept in good health. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.38271 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.