Montgomery Place

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. Our nursing rating assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In addition, this nursing home was given high marks in the area of short-term care. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that category with a grade of A+. In the category of short-term care, we try to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home earned a very good government inspection report this year as well. For this reason, it received one of our higher grades in that area with a grade of B. 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 C. 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 30.000002 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.