Grand View Care Center

We also wanted to emphasize that this nursing home has received nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We gave them an A in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are quite insignificant. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report, which is still very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Nursing scores are largely associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed 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 many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving a patient even once per day.

The next category we assessed was long-term care. Adding to its dominant profile, this nursing home also excelled in this area. In fact, we awarded it a of A in the category. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 97.73756 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a proven method to avoid negative health outcomes for the aged 65 and up population. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Moving on to our next category, this nursing home also performed admirably in our short-term care category. We gave it a grade of B+ in this category. This finalized a very impressive profile. In the area of short-term care, we seek to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.