Kingston of Ashland

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home received even higher grades in the category of short-term care. It earned one of our highest grades in that category with an A. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To provide high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home also performed well in inspections. In fact, it earned a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that category with a score of A. Few nursing homes with an overall grade in this range performed this well in multiple categories. Inspection grades are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspections. Nursing homes that score well in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with nurse staffing levels. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility 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.

The last area we analyzed is nursing, ended up being this facility's least impressive category. We gave this facility a grade of D in this area. This is one of the few weak points of an otherwise impressive profile. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 96.56653 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. Surprisingly, this facility also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.