Health Care

On top of being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. The nursing grade features a variety of factors. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also was given a dominant long-term care grade. Indeed, this ended up being this facility's second best category score. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.166664 percent of its patients. This is a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.05 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility also earned first-rate government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our more favorable scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few relatively minor dings are not necessarily the end of the world.

The last category we assessed is short-term care, where this facility was awarded a B. This actually ended up being this nursing home's worst category. A nursing home could be doing a lot worse when their lowest grade still is superior to most other nursing homes. In calculating our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is generally a fair measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.