Gateway Care Center

In addition to receiving a great overall score, this facility also earned top notch inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our higher grades in that category, with an A. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. This nursing home received 8 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

In addition, this facility also received favorable short-term care grades in our assessment. In fact, we awarded it one of our higher grades in that category, with a score of B+. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. When computing our nursing scores, we factor in both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning a resident more often.

The final category we rated is long-term care. We awarded this facility one of our higher grades in that area, with a B. This nursing home turned out to be strong in each area we assessed. For prospective residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 91.906006 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be a bit below what we were hoping for but still a respectable percentage. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.