Grace Pointe Cont Care Sr Campus, Skilled Nursing

In addition to earning a quality overall grade, this nursing home also earned excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our highest grades in that area, with an A. Inspection ratings account for several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area tend to have few of these severe deficiencies. It does not look like we have information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Compounding its first-rate accomplishments in other areas, we gave this facility a score of A for our long-term care rating. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. This place is as good as it gets in this area.

Turning the page to our third area, we awarded this nursing home a score of A- for its short-term care score. This is a very strong rating. Our short-term care grade is typically used to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To have highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Switching gears to the final area, this facility also excelled in the nursing category. We awarded it an A- for that area. This wrapped up a straight A report card. Our nursing score focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.5 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 frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.