Newcare

On top of faring well overall, this nursing home received an excellent short-term care grade. We gave it an A in that category. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Contributing to its high-end profile, this facility also excelled in our long-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in that category. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. Once we assessed the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is too frequently a life or death health condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Another impressive feature of this facility is its inspection grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the last category we assessed, this facility was given an impressive grade grade of A- in our nursing category. With this grade, the facility wrapped up a straight A profile. When calculating a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the number of hours nurses are caring for patients and the levels of training of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home excelled in these areas, with excellent scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.