Gurwin Jewish Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

In addition to earning a quality overall grade, this nursing home also earned excellent inspections recently. We awarded it one of our best grades in that category, with an A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. 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 strong resume, this nursing home also performed well in our long-term care area. In fact, we gave it a score of A in that category. Facilities that receive this kind of score in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are well cared for. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 95.14991 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The third area we looked at is short-term care. Adding to its first-rate profile, this facility also excelled in this category. In fact, we awarded it a of A- in that area. Short-term care scores are important for residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more skilled nursing services. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that returned home from this facility. We found that 6.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The next category we rated turned out to be this nursing home's poorest area. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still awarded it an acceptable grade of B- for our nursing category. There are a variety of criteria included in this area. Many of the subcategories relate to nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility surprisingly fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be indicators of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care provided.