Gill Odd Fellows Home

On top of being a top notch facility overall, it also performed well in inspections, where it earned an A. Few facilities performed better in this category. Our inspection grades are based on several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. 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.

On the list of its many elite grades, this facility received first-rate short-term care score. In fact, we gave it a score of A- in this category. Short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home is also above average in the area of long-term care, where it was awarded a grade of B+. It outpaced most nursing homes in this area. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. After considering the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 94.69026 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a deadly health condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In the final category we looked at, this nursing home was awarded a very strong grade of B+ in our nursing category. With this score, the facility finished off a very strong profile. When calculating our nursing grades, we assess both nursing hours and the training levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as reliable measures of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.