The Laurels of Goshen

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an impressive grade of A for short-term care. In forming these short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to devise a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who returned home from this facility. We found that 5.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. Nursing ratings are largely based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to another strength for this nursing home, we awarded them one of our more positive grades in our long-term care category as well, with a grade of B+. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 92.95775 percent of its residents. This is slightly below what we expected but still a respectable figure. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Finally, we wanted to emphasize this nursing home's nearly flawless government inspections. We gave them an impressive grade of B+ in this category. This wraps up a very strong report card for this facility. Our inspection ratings are tied to several data points located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.