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In addition to being a first-rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in our short-term care rating, where it received a grade of A+. Short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 7.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Adding to an already impressive profile, this facility also received virtually flawless health inspections in recent years. As a result, we awarded it an A+ inspection grade. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are quite insignificant. 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was awarded a top-shelf long-term care grade. In fact, this turned out to be this nursing home's third strongest category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a score of A. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. It does not look like this nursing home submitted information about vaccinations. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients 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 fourth area we assessed is nursing, where this nursing home was given an A-. This completed a very strong report card. Not many facilities earned an A- or higher in each of our categories. In computing our nursing grades, we factor in both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.