Ketchikan Med Center New Horizons Transitional Care

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Our nursing rating includes a host of factors. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving a patient at least once a day.

This facility also received a dominant short-term care grade. This actually is this facility's second strongest category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a score of A. With our short-term care assessment, we attempt to craft a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze the facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this area is the number of patients that were able to return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility is also strong in the area of long-term care, where it was awarded a grade of B+. It outpaced most nursing homes in this category. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 94.366196 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is more than the average nursing home. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Lastly, we also wanted to draw your attention to this nursing home's nearly flawless inspections. We gave them an impressive grade of B+ in this category. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility was assessed 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.