Mary Free Bed Sub-Acute Rehabilitation

In addition to being a strong nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in the category of short-term care, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. In our short-term care assessment, we seek to forge a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Remarkably, this nursing home provides about 50% more hours of services from registered nurses and physical therapists than most facilities we assessed. This is an encouraging sign. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. On top of excelling in the area of physical therapy hours, we found that it performed as well as just about any facility in the nation with 73.2 percent of its patients returning home. Most nursing homes are below 50 percent in this metric.

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. Nursing scores are mostly tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This place provides an incredible 6.7 hours of nursing care per patient per day. Out of that total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering high levels of care, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed as well as any nursing home in the country in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

This facility also had a nearly flawless inspection report. It earned one of our highest scores in that category with a score of A+. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this area usually have few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In our last area, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for its long-term care score. This completed a very favorable report card. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. We weren't able to track down this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.