Immanuel - Newport House

We also found that this facility excelled in our long-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. For prospective patients seeking a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 93.40278 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be a few points less than we expected but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility also earned an A+ inspection score, making it one of the rare nursing homes to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was given a high-end short-term care grade. This actually is this nursing home's third strongest category grade. In that area, this facility received a grade of A. With our short-term care category, we attempt to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 5.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

In our final category, this nursing home also was given an excellent nursing rating, with a grade of A. This finished off an elusive straight A profile. Our nursing grade looks at the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place 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 generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving residents at least once a day.