Ghs Lila Doyle

In addition to being a great nursing home overall, it also earned A+ health inspections recently. Its inspections are nearly perfect. Our inspection grades account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this area generally have very few severe deficiencies. 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.

This nursing home also received an A+ for its long-term care grade. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.63899 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia can be a deadly ailment for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home also was superb in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a score of A. Only a select group of nursing homes performed better in this area. In calculating our short-term care scores, we scrutinize a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is often a meaningful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 6.1 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Switching gears to our last area, this facility also excelled in our nursing category. We gave it a B+ for this category. This finalized a very strong profile. There are numerous data points within this area. Most of the data points reflect nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics 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 facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving residents at least once a day.