Knollwood Nursing Center

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled at short-term care, where it earned an A. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. In the category of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Our inspection grades are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's government inspections. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Nursing scores are based largely on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures 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.

The fourth area we graded was long-term care, where this nursing home was given a grade of A-. This rounded out a very favorable profile. Not many nursing homes earned an A- or higher in every single category. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are kept in good health. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 96.15385 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Finally, this nursing home 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 number.