Grand Meadows

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings account for several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area usually have few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

This nursing home performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our nursing score is largely based on the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics 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 nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving a resident even once per day.

This nursing home is also above average in the area of short-term care, where it was awarded a grade of B. It performed better than most facilities in this area. In the area of short-term care, we seek to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 4.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The next area we scored was this nursing home's worst area. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still awarded it a respectable grade of B- in long-term care. In computing our long-term care ratings, we look at the assistance with daily living received by the nursing home's patients. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. Unfortunately, this nursing home vaccinated just 81.72043 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Nevertheless, this place excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.