Guam Memorial Hospital Authority

On top of being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. The nursing rating features many subcategories. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides 1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Adding to its dominant profile, this nursing home also performed well in our short-term care area. In fact, it received a score of A in that category. Our short-term care scores are arguably more important for patients needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires additional skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Turning the page to our third area, this facility was awarded an excellent long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in that area. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are well cared for. One of the statistics we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this nursing home provided information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to our inspection category, this facility excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's recent government inspection reports. We awarded it a grade of A- for that category. This completed its straight A report card. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are quite insignificant. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.