North Shore Health

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an impressive nursing score. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A. In determining a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the quantity of hours nurses commit to patients and the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In addition, this nursing home also received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that area with an A. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor dings are not necessarily the end of the world.

We also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received a first-rate grade of A- in our short-term care area. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to have quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

In the last category we looked at, this nursing home was awarded a very strong grade of B+ in our long-term care category. With this grade, the facility wrapped up a very favorable report card. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. After we finished assessing the amount of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.10714 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia tragically can be a dangerous ailment for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.