Odd Fellow Home

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in our short-term care rating, where it received an impressive grade of A. Few facilities fared better in this area. In computing our short-term care ratings, we assess a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is generally a useful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 6.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that area, we gave this facility an A-. We assessed the skill-level of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses worked with patients, in calculating our grade in this area. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving a patient at least once a day.

Adding another impressive category grade, we awarded this facility an impressive grade of B+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area tend to have very few severe deficiencies. While this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple relatively minor dings aren't something to panic about.

Switching gears to the fourth category, this facility was awarded an extremely favorable long-term care grade. While this isn't as good as many of its other scores, this remains one of the stronger grades we offer. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is far higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.