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To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Inspection grades are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. 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.

Among this facility's other accomplishments is its top-shelf long-term care score. We gave them one of our most impressive grades in that area, with a grade of A-. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is much higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home was awarded strong grades in the category of short-term care as well. In fact, we gave it one of our highest grades in that area with a score of A-. In our short-term care assessment, we seek to forge a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze the nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The last area we analyzed was nursing. This nursing home was given a better than average nursing score in our assessment, with a B-. Even though this is not as strong as several of its other grades, this remains an acceptable grade in this category. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, as well as the number of hours the nurses spent with patients, in calculating our rating in this category. This nursing home averages just 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place surprisingly excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it scored well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the number of hours of care provided.