Friendship Home Association

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. Nursing scores are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed 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 facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving a resident at least once a day.

In addition, this nursing home also earned a nearly flawless government inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with an A. Inspection scores are tied to datapoints located in the a nursing home's government inspections. Nursing homes that score well in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

Turning to our next area, this nursing home also earned a grade of B for its long-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this area. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is a good sign for resident care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a dangerous illness for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The last area we graded was this facility's worst category. However, even its weakest link would likely be a strength for many nursing homes. In fact, we awarded it a strong grade of B in short-term care. Our short-term care ratings are likely most critical for people requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.