Memorial Health Care Center

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. There are a variety of criteria within this grade. Many of these factors relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also received an A+ long-term care grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to be awarded multiple A+ category scores. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 91.358025 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be a few points below what we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In addition, this facility also earned excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our best scores in that category, with an A. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors 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.

Turning to the fourth area, this nursing home also excelled in the short-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- in this category. This finalized truly elite report card. Our short-term care ratings are vital for individuals in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.