Memorial Healthcare Center Ltc

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of long-term care. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home also received an A+ inspection score, making it one of the rare places to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. This grade is based on the nursing home's inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can pay to a nursing home. Inspection scores are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspections. Nursing homes that excel 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. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

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 rating is mostly based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In our final area, this nursing home also was given a very strong short-term care grade, with an A-. This topped off a very impressive profile. Our short-term care ratings are believed to be more critical for people in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually requires more skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.