Moosehaven

In addition to faring well overall, this facility received high marks in the category of short-term care as well. As a result, it received our highest score in that category with an A+. In determining our short-term care ratings, we look at a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This category is considered to be a useful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility also received a virtually flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that category with an A+. This is one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+'s. Inspection grades are tied to datapoints found on the a nursing home's government inspections. Places that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Moving on our next category, we awarded this facility a score of A for our long-term care rating. This is a superb score. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is a good sign for resident care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. After we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly can be a deadly ailment for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility does not take any chances. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In our final area, we gave this facility a grade of A+ for our nursing grade. This rounded out a very favorable profile. There are a variety of data points within this category. Many of these factors relate to staffing levels. This nursing home averages 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.