North Shore Health and Rehab Facility

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this facility received high marks in the category of short-term care as well. It received our highest grade in that category with an A+. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we considered in this category is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an A+. When computing our nursing scores, we look at both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Another quality feature of this nursing home is its inspection score. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A-. Our inspection scores are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. It doesn't appear that we have information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Without having access to the deficiency related data for this nursing home, it is challenging to fully grade the place in terms of this category.

Turning to the final category, this facility was awarded a very strong long-term care score. Even though this isn't nearly as elite as some of its other scores, this is nevertheless one of the more favorable grades a facility can receive. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 98.611115 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.