Logan Regional Hospital Transitional Care Unit

One of the reasons this place ended up being a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is just about as good as it gets in this very important category. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our nursing rating assesses the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of training of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.9 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' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The third area we assessed was short-term care. This facility fared very well in our short-term care rating also. We awarded them an elite grade of A+ in this area. Our short-term care grades are crucial for patients in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Moving on to the fourth category, this facility was awarded a high-end long-term care score. We awarded it a grade of A in that category, rounding out a straight A profile. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.