Medford Leas

In addition to faring well overall, this nursing home received nearly flawless government inspections. Consequently, it received one of our best grades in that category with an A+. Our inspection scores are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this facility received high marks in the area of nursing. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Nursing scores are primarily associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 1.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning the page to our next category, this facility received a top-shelf short-term care grade. In fact, it received a grade of A in this category. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

In the final category we looked at, this facility was awarded an impressive grade grade of A in our long-term care category. With this score, the facility rounded out a straight A profile. For prospective patients in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.