Good Shepherd Rehabilitation and Nursing Center

In addition to earning a strong overall score, this facility fared even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the nursing home's recent inspections. We awarded it an A for this area, which is one of our best grades. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

An additional strong feature for this facility is that it was given a favorable long-term care score. Indeed, this proved to be its second best category grade. In this category, we gave this facility a grade of B. For prospective residents seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 48.214287 percent of its residents, which is slightly less than we were hoping for. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The third area we graded was short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a decent grade of B-. Short-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.

The final area we assessed is nursing. This facility received a B- for the area. We weighed the levels of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses spent with patients, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also factored a few quality-based metrics into our nursing ratings. This nursing home was subpar in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its patients' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are often good measures of the quality of nursing care offered.