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This nursing home really excelled in the category of short-term care, with an impressive grade of A in this category. Our short-term care scores are thought to be more meaningful for residents needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates more skilled nursing. This means not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 6.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B+. When computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we assess the amount of time nurses are seeing residents and the level of licensure of those nurses. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home 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 nation 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 protocol of moving a resident even once per day.

We also gave this nursing home a middle of the road score in the area of long-term care, where it received a B-. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. This place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning our last category of inspections, this nursing home received an F in this area. This score was very detrimental to this nursing home's overall grade. For places that received this poor of an inspection score, we would scrutinize any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, we need to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed significant government fines in recent years amounting to more than $100,000. This generally means that a bad track record spanned more than one year.