Grand Avenue Rest Home

We awarded this nursing home a solid grade in our long-term care category, where it earned a B+. Facilities that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 94.80519 percent of its residents, which is more than most nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an B+. Few nursing homes performed as well in this area. Our inspection ratings are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. The nursing score analyzes many components, many of which are based on nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. It scored well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

This facility's weakest area is short-term care, which is the last category we analyzed. For this category, we gave this facility a grade of D. Our short-term care grade is typically used to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. With its weak grade in this category, we weren't shocked to find that this place offers substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.