Gem Transitional

On top of being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home really excelled in nursing, where it received an A. The nursing rating weighs a host of subcategories. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. 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 place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning patients more frequently.

We also want to emphasize this facility's nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We gave them an B+ in this area. Our inspection scores are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspections. Places that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

This nursing home received a strong short-term care score as well. We gave it one of our higher scores in that category with a grade of B+. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to provide highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that 4.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The last category we scored was long-term care. This facility received a grade of C for the area. In our long-term care rating, we focus on the amount of services offered by a nursing home, as well as a few quality statistics. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is better than most nursing homes. This facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.