The Renaissance

In addition to being a quality facility overall, this nursing home really excelled in our short-term care category, where it received an impressive grade of A. In crafting these short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to devise a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

In addition, this facility also excelled in inspections, where it earned a grade of A-. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

This nursing home was awarded its next highest category score in the category of long-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of B- in this area, which is a decent grade. In the category of long-term care, we look at the amount of care provided by a nursing home, as opposed to more sophisticated services. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinates 97.560974 percent of its residents against pneumonia. This nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final area we looked at was nursing. In that area, we awarded this facility a decent grade of B-. This actually proved to be this facility's worst area. The nursing score is based on several data points. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often a reliable indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.