Grandview Healthcare Center

On top of being a top notch facility overall, this place also performed well in inspections, where it earned an A. Not many facilities performed better in this area. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its top-shelf assessments in other areas, we gave this nursing home a score of A- for our long-term care rating. Facilities that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 97.51553 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a deadly ailment for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home received an impressive short-term care score as well. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that area with a grade of B+. In computing our short-term care scores, we scrutinize a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is typically a solid measure of a facility's rehabilitation. We weren't able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The next area we looked at ended up being this nursing home's weakest area. However, even its lowest point would likely be a highlight for most nursing homes. In fact, we gave it a favorable grade of B in our nursing category. In calculating our nursing grades, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.