Galleria Residence and Rehabilitation Center

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. Nursing actually ended up being its best category. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of A. The nursing score is based on a variety of subcategories. The most heavily weighted factor is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics 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 place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning a patient more often.

This nursing home also was given a strong short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it an above average grade of B+ in this area. In the category of short-term care, we try to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 4.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Adding yet another impressive category grade, we awarded this nursing home an impressive grade of B+ for our inspections rating. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

Turning to our fourth area, this nursing home was awarded a respectable long-term care score of C. In our long-term care category, we analyze the sheer volume of services offered by a nursing home, along with a handful of qualitative data points. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home vaccinated 96.460175 percent of its residents, which is a very respectable percentage. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.