John T Mather Memorial Hosp T C U

In addition to being an elite facility overall, this facility performed well in the area of inspections, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes fared this well in this area. Our inspection grades weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area generally have few severe deficiencies. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this facility received quality marks in the category of short-term care. As a result, it was given one of our best grades in that area with a grade of A+. In our short-term care grade, we try to craft a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients that returned home from this facility. We found that 7.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

We also wanted to note the fact that this nursing home was given an elite score of A in our long-term care area. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We were not able to track down this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last category we scored is nursing, where this nursing home received an A. This completed a very impressive profile. Only a select few nursing homes received an A- or better in every single category. In calculating a nursing home's nursing score, we weigh the amount of time nurses spend with patients as well as the levels of training of those nurses. This nursing home averages 1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.