Medicalodges Goddard

This nursing home earned a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially wanted to emphasize its excellent nursing score. We awarded them an A- in this category. The nursing grade is based on quite a few datapoints, but the main consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also performed well in inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A-. Few nursing homes with an overall grade in this range performed this well in multiple categories. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home is also strong in the area of short-term care, where it was given a grade of B. It outpaced most nursing homes in this area. In determining our short-term care grades, we look at a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is often a meaningful assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The last category we scored is long-term care. We gave this facility a solid score in this category, with a B-. While this isn't as strong as some of its other scores, it is still not a terrible score. In determining our long-term care ratings, we quantify the nursing home's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. Once we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. We were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated only 35.625 percent of its patients against pneumonia. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.