Good Shepherd Home Raker Center

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this nursing home earned near flawless government inspections recently. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this area. Arguably the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. 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. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

This facility is also strong in the area of short-term care, where it was awarded a grade of B+. It outpaced most facilities in this area. Short-term care scores are meaningful for individuals needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. When calculating a facility's nursing grade, we consider the quantity of hours nurses commit to residents as well as the level of skill of the nurses. 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 place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving a patient more often.

The last area we analyzed was long-term care. We gave this facility an acceptable score in that area, with a B-. Even though this wasn't as favorable as a few of its other scores, it is still not a bad grade. In the category of long-term care, we look at the quantity of care provided by a facility, rather than more medically-intensive services. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 82.10526 percent of its residents. This is many points lower than the national average. Nevertheless, this place keeps 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.