Grace Point

While we were not high on this nursing home's overall score, it actually received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with an A-. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are relatively minor. This particular nursing home received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

This facility's next most favorable score is long-term care, but it still received just a D in that area. This turns out to be a relatively poor grade. For residents in need of a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 97.391304 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place also keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

We gave this nursing home just a D for our short-term care grade. This is not an impressive grade. Our short-term care scores are meaningful for patients in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. As you might expect, we learned that this facility offers far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than a typical nursing home. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The final category we scored was nursing, in which this nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel grade here also. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this category, which is obviously a major concern. The nursing grade assesses quite a few factors, but the most important consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This place fared well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these statistics to be measures of the quality of nursing care.