Living Center East

On top of performing well overall, this facility also earned nearly flawless government inspections. Consequently, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with an A+. Inspection ratings are tied to several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its strong resume, this nursing home also excelled in our short-term care area. In fact, it received a score of A for the area. In computing these short-term care scores, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to create a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. We assessed the levels of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time the nurses were with patients, in calculating our rating in this area. This nursing home provides 0.5 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.

In the last area, this facility also received a very strong long-term care rating, with an A. This topped off a first-rate report card. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. We were not able to track down information on vaccination rates. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.