Monticello House

To go along with its decent overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A- for our nursing rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. There are a variety of subcategories within this grade. Most of these datapoints reflect the quantity of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home 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 also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an B+. Few nursing homes performed as well in this area. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

Another one of this facility's more favorable category scores came in the category of short-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services To have good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. 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, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we looked at in this category is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility's worst category was long-term care, which is the final area we scored. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this area. Even with some solid scores in other areas, this grade is nevertheless of a concern so we would like to to point it out. Facilities that do not fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated 75.757576 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be several points lower than what we expected. Surprisingly, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.