Heritage of Elmwood Nursing Home

In addition to receiving a great overall score, this nursing home received an A+ inspection score. This is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can offer a facility. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+. Nursing ratings are based in large part on levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of moving residents more often.

The next category we assessed was long-term care. This facility was superb in our long-term care rating also. We gave them an exemplary grade of A+ in this category. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 97.10145 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is too frequently a life or death illness for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In our final category, we gave this nursing home an A+ for our short-term care rating. This completed a very strong report card. Our short-term care ratings are based on the facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.