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With an overall grade this high, it should come as no surprise that this nursing home excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Inspection scores are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. There are numerous datapoints within this grade. Many of these subcategories are tied to staffing levels. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics 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.

This nursing home also was dominant in the area of short-term care, where it received a score of A. Few facilities performed better in this category. In the area of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The next area we looked at is long-term care. We awarded this facility one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a B. Although this wasn't as dominant as some of its other scores, it is still an excellent score. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. Once we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 98.4375 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous health condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.