Ivinson Memorial Hospital

We also wanted to point out that this facility has received near flawless health inspections recently. We awarded them an A+ in this category. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this area tend to have very few severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a 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 received high marks in the category of short-term care. For this reason, it was given one of our highest scores in that area with a grade of A+. Our short-term care scores are presumably most critical for residents needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This means not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 6.6 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

The third area we looked at is long-term care. Contributing to its high-end profile, this facility also performed well in this area. In fact, we gave it a grade of of A in that area. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. It doesn't appear that this facility provided information about vaccinations. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on to our fourth area, this facility also excelled in the nursing category. In fact, we awarded it an A- in that category. This topped off truly elite report card. When calculating our nursing ratings, we analyze both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides 1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.