Millard Care and Rehabilitation

In addition to earning a great overall grade, this facility excelled in our shot-term care category. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category. In the area of short-term care, we try to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 5.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't 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.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. In calculating our nursing grades, we look at both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home 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 frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Moving on to the final category, this nursing home also performed admirably in our long-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a B+ in that category. This completed a very strong report card. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the data points we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.43503 percent of its residents. This is a proven method to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the senior population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.