Montgomery Place

We also want to emphasize the fact that this nursing home excelled in our nursing rating. We gave them an A+ in this category. Nursing ratings are largely associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning patients at least once a day.

This first-rate facility also excelled in the area of short-term care, where it received a grade of A+. Few facilities performed better in this category. Our short-term care scores are probably more important for patients needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we assessed in this category is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 6.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility earned a grade of B for its inspections rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Inspection grades are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. 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 final category we scored is long-term care, in which this nursing home was awarded a B-. Even though this proved to be its weakest category rating, this is still a middle of the pack score. In the area of long-term care, we focus more on the quantity of services provided by a nursing home, as opposed to more sophisticated services. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 31.372551 percent of its residents. This is multiple points lower than the national average. On a more positive note, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.