George L Mee Memorial Hospital D/P Snf

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home also earned excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our highest grades in that category, with an A. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Our nursing rating is largely associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 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 nation 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 by employing a policy of moving a resident more often.

This facility also was awarded a dominant short-term care grade. In fact, this turned out to be this facility's third strongest category score. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. In forming our short-term care grades, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The final area we rated was long-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a B+. This topped off a very favorable report card. Few facilities earned a B+ or higher in every category. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are well cared for. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 76.666664 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is somewhat less than we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.