Millville Center

One of the reasons this ended up being a great nursing home is it received an impressive grade in inspections. In fact, inspections ended up being its best category. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its impressive performance in other areas, we gave this facility a score of A for its long-term care score. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 97.47127 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning our next area, this nursing home received an excellent short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in that area. In forming our short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to devise a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this category is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The final area we scored turned out to be this nursing home's weakest category. Nevertheless, even in its weakest link we still awarded it a respectable grade of B- in nursing. Nursing grades are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This facility averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is not an impressive total. Lastly, we look at quality-based metrics, such as the percentage of patients who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these data points are measures of the quality of nursing care.