Mcintosh Senior Living

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection ratings are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this facility received quality marks in the area of long-term care. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that category with a score of A+. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. After considering the significant amount of nursing hours provided by this nursing home, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 99.36306 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is much higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This first-rate facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing grade assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of training of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home boasts a really impressive 4.5 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, of which a significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing impressive levels of care, this place also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. For example, it performed as well as any facility in the nation when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.

In the final area, we gave this facility a grade of A+ for its short-term care rating. This finished off an elite profile. Our short-term care grade is often employed to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. The last statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.