Montgomery Place

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this facility excelled in the area of short-term care, where it received an impressive grade of A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. With our short-term care rating, we seek to create a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. 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. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our nursing grade. Nursing ratings are primarily associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving a resident at least once a day.

Another area of strength for this facility is in inspections. In fact, inspections proved to be one of its best categories. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B. Our inspection ratings are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. 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. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

The next category we graded is long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this area, which is an abysmal score. You should not simply disqualify a nursing home due to a single poor category though. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the facility is not as well-staffed. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. As it turns out, this nursing home vaccinated just 27.450977 percent of its patients, which is several points lower than we expected. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.