Gosnell Health and Rehab

In addition to being a strong nursing home overall, it also earned A+ health inspections recently. Its inspections are virtually perfect. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that we have deficiency data for this facility. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Compounding its high-end achievements in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for its long-term care grade. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. This nursing home clearly fared well enough in these measures to receive an impressive grade in this area.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. Our nursing rating focuses on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final area we analyzed is short-term care. This nursing home was awarded a very good nursing grade this year, with a grade of B. Even though this wasn't quite as impressive as several of its other scores, this is nevertheless one of our more impressive grades for this area. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.