Nevada State Veterans Home - Boulder City

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our nursing score is mostly tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also was given a top-shelf short-term care score. Indeed, this ended up being its second strongest category grade. In that area, this facility received a score of A-. Our short-term care grades are likely most important for people requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Turning to our inspection category, this facility excelled in that category, which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. In fact, we gave it an A- for that category. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to resident safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

The last area we scored was long-term care. This facility was given a very good nursing rating in our assessment, with a grade of B. While this was not as impressive as several of its other category grades, this is nevertheless one of our more impressive grades in that area. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After we finished assessing the amount of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 93.73913 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.