Gottlieb Memorial Hospital

We also found that this facility excelled in our short-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Short-term care grades are typically used to measure a facility's rehabilitation services. To offer quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 7.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility also received an A+ inspection score, making it one of the rare places to receive multiple A+'s in our categories. This is based on the nursing home's inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the biggest complements we can pay to a facility. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was awarded a fine long-term care score. Indeed, this ended up being its third best category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home provided data regarding vaccinations. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In the final area, this nursing home also received an impressive nursing rating, with an A-. This wrapped up an elite profile. When determining a facility's nursing grade, we consider the amount of time nurses spend with patients and the levels of training of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these data points as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.