Grover C Dils Medical Center Snf

We also wanted to point out the fact that this nursing home has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this area. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its first-rate resume, this nursing home also performed well in our long-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in that area. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 98 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on our next area, this nursing home was awarded a top-shelf short-term care score. In fact, it received a score of A- in that area. In determining these short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

In the final area, we gave this nursing home a grade of A+ for our nursing score. This completed a first-rate profile. Our nursing grade includes quite a few factors, however, the main consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility excelled in these areas, with excellent scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.