LaurellWood Care Center

On top of being a first rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in nursing, where it received an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures 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.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite minor. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple relatively minor dings aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Turning to another strength for this facility, we gave them one of our higher grades in our short-term care category as well, with a grade of B+. Short-term care grades are crucial for prospective residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. This means a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this nursing home submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Moving on to the next area, this nursing home received a strong long-term care score. While this was not nearly as elite as many of its other grades, this remains one of the better scores a facility can receive. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 93.20988 percent of its residents. This is a bit below what we were hoping for but still a decent percentage. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.