Medicalodges Nevada

On top of being an elite facility overall, this facility performed well in the area of inspections, where it earned an A+. Few places fared as well in this category. Our inspection grades account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this category tend to have very few severe deficiencies. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies an imminent risk 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 excelled in the category of long-term care, where it received a grade of A. Not many facilities received a better grade in this area. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 96.296295 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia can be a dangerous illness for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A- in our nursing category. Our nursing score analyzes a handful of components, however, the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving a resident more frequently.

Switching gears to the next category, this nursing home was awarded a highly favorable short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- in that area, rounding out a straight A profile. In the area of short-term care, we seek to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home.