Nevada Nursing & Rehab

This nursing home's overall grade was propped up by a strong long-term care grade. We gave them one of our higher scores in that area, with a grade of B+. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 29.62963 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is a bit below what we anticipated but still a decent figure. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home also received a very favorable inspection rating. In fact, its inspection grade proved to be its second best category. In that category, we awarded this facility a B. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this area generally have few of these severe deficiencies. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C, which is a decent grade. When determining our nursing ratings, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provided just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This figure is far below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics. While this facility got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of these quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it did well in this metric. This is typically a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning residents even once per day.

Moving on to the fourth category, this facility really did not perform very well. With an abysmal grade of F in short-term care, this is this facility's poorest area. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Based on its score in this area, we were not surprised to find that this facility is well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.