Messiah Lifeways

One of the many reasons this place ended up being a quality nursing home is that it earned an A+ in our inspections category. This is just about as good as it gets in this area. Inspection grades are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also performed well in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a score of A. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To have highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this area is the number of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. There are numerous datapoints included in this category. Most of the subcategories relate to nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In the final category we analyzed, this nursing home was given a very strong grade of A- in our long-term care category. With this grade, the nursing home wrapped up a straight A profile. Facilities that excel in this category typically provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 95.203835 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.