Good Neighbor Home

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Our nursing score is based on a number of factors. 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 looked at 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 state 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 by employing a policy of turning a patient at least once a day.

In addition, this nursing home also received a nearly flawless government inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with an A. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This means that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

This facility also was given a very impressive long-term care grade. This actually is this facility's third most impressive category score. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 49.253735 percent of its patients, which is slightly less than we expected. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Switching gears to the final category, this facility was given a very strong short-term care rating. We gave it a grade of B+ in this area, rounding out one of our more favorable profiles. In our short-term care rating, we attempt to create a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess the nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 4.2 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.