Islands Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home really excelled in our short-term care rating, where it earned an A+. In calculating these short-term care scores, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 6.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. Nursing scores are mostly associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also earned favorable government inspections in recent years. In fact, we awarded them one of our better grades in that area, with a B. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. It does not look like we were able to find deficiency data for this facility. We wish we had more information about this nursing home. Without having all of the information regarding deficiencies, it was challenging to fully assess this nursing home in this area.

The last category we scored is long-term care. We gave this nursing home a C in this area. In the area of long-term care, we analyze the quantity of services provided by a facility, rather than more sophisticated services. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinated 99.04762 percent of its residents against pneumonia. This place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.