Guardian Healthcare and Rehabilitation

While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

In addition, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B in our nursing category. This is one of our better grades. There are several subcategories within this category. Many of the criteria relate to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The third category we graded is long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B-. Long-term care scores are vital for residents seeking non-healthcare services such as personal care. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 54.83871 percent of its patients. This is several points below the national average. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Switching gears to the last category, this nursing home received a decent short-term care grade of C. Short-term care grades are often used to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to offer highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this place. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 4.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.