Surgeons Choice Medical Center

We also found that this facility excelled in our short-term care rating. We awarded them an A+ in this category. Short-term care grades are vital for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing services. This means a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Finally, we considered the number of patients that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 7.1 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our nursing rating is primarily associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively insignificant. This facility was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A few relatively minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

The next category we scored was long-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility an acceptable grade of B-. This turned out to be this facility's least impressive category. With our long-term care rating, we analyze the volume of care offered by a facility, along with some qualitative data points. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home submitted information about vaccinations. Lastly, this facility excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.