Kahl Home

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled at short-term care, where it received an A. With our short-term care category, we strive to create a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 6.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Our nursing grade is primarily tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to our inspection category, this nursing home excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's recent government inspection reports. In fact, we gave it an A- for that category. Inspection grades are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. 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. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

The next category we analyzed is long-term care. In that area, we gave this facility an acceptable grade of C. This actually is this facility's least impressive area. Our long-term care grades are more important for folks requiring more conventional services related to personal care. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinated 99.60159 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.