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In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this facility also received an elite short-term care grade. We gave them one of our better grades in that area, with an A. Our short-term care grades are arguably more important for residents requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 5.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

In addition, this facility also received excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better grades in that category, with a grade of A-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively minor. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. We analyzed the licensure of nurses at the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses worked with residents, in calculating our score in this area. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics 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 place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving residents more frequently.

Our last category is long-term care, in which we gave this nursing home a C in this area. Our long-term care grade is often used to gauge a facility's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a skilled nursing facility. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 98.89503 percent of its patients, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.