Larksfield Place

To pair with its strong overall grade, we gave this facility an A+ for its short-term care score. In computing our short-term care scores, we size up the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is considered to be a reliable assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. This nursing home is the gold standard in terms of skilled nursing staffing. It offered approximately one and a half times as many registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical facility. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who returned home from this nursing home. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy staffing, we found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in the country with 73.7 percent of its residents returning home.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing grade assesses the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This particular facility provided 5.5 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This was one of the better figures we found. Furthermore, we found that a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. In addition to providing high levels of care, this place also performed well in some of the quality measures we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average. This is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided with better nursing care and a policy of regularly moving patients to avoid bed sores.

We awarded this facility an A for inspections. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. 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 fourth category we graded is long-term care, where this facility was given a B+. This finished off a very impressive profile. Only a select few nursing homes earned a B+ or better in in each area we assessed. For prospective residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. This facility's vaccination statistics were not as strong as its nursing hours data. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 66.666664 percent of its patients. We'd love to see some improvement herein this statistic in the future. This nursing home was also able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.68 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.