Kings Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

On top of being a strong nursing home overall, this place excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. Not many nursing homes performed better in that area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. Nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. Nursing scores are heavily correlated with levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning patients more frequently.

This nursing home received a favorable long-term care score as well. We gave it one of our better scores in that area with a grade of B+. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are kept in good health. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next category we rated was short-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a grade of B-. Even though this is its least impressive category score, this is nevertheless not a major area of concern. In our short-term care grade, we attempt to craft a valuable gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final metric we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 5.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.