Gaye Haven Intermediate Care Facility

Gaye Haven Intermediate Care Facility is a very-small nursing home located in Las Vegas, Nevada. This nursing home was given an A- overall, which is among the top scores that we offer. A score in this range requires excellent marks across the board. In spite of Las Vegas featuring 30 other nursing homes to choose from, this nursing home stands out as a first-rate option. This nursing home also received phenomenal grades in each of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite minor. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its dominant profile, this nursing home also performed well in our long-term care area. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for the area. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 94.33962 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next category we looked at is short-term care. This facility was given an above average short-term care score, with a B+ in this area. In determining these short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to devise a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. It doesn't look like this nursing home submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The last area we scored was nursing. We awarded this nursing home one of our better scores in that area, with a B. While this was not as high as some of this nursing home's other scores, it is still a perfectly acceptable grade. Nursing scores are largely tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Nevada 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 having a policy of turning a resident even once per day.