Jnh-Jefferson Inn

We also wanted to point out that this facility earned near flawless inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our inspection ratings are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its top-shelf profile, this nursing home also was given a strong long-term care score, with a grade of A-. For patients looking for a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 78.04054 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be a few points below what we expected but still a respectable figure. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to another strength for this nursing home, we gave them one of our more favorable grades in our short-term care category as well, with a grade of B+. Short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The final area we analyzed proved to be this nursing home's worst area. Nevertheless, even in its weakest link we still awarded it a decent grade of B- in nursing. Our nursing rating focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, we also baked some quality measures into our nursing scores. This facility was subpar in a few of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are typically reliable measures of the quality of nursing care available.