New Community Extended Care Facility

One of the reasons this place is a strong nursing home is that it received an impressive inspection score. In fact, inspections is its best category grade. In that category, we awarded it a grade of A+. Inspection ratings are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Nursing grades are primarily tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning a resident even once per day.

Turning to our next area, this nursing home also received a grade of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average grade in this area. Our short-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. We weren't able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we considered the number of residents who returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The last area we graded is long-term care, which was this facility's weakest category. We gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is obviously somewhat disappointing. For prospective patients in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 98.14815 percent of its residents, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.